FEBRUARY 20

Films:
Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut 1960) DVD 3050
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Rohmer 1962) DVD 2028
Ulysse (Varda 1982) DVD 2979
excerpt:
Band of Outsiders (Godard 1965) DVD 623 – 45:07 to 51:50

Reading (to be done by February 26):
François Truffaut - "Evolution of the New Wave," in course reader.
Jonathan Rosenbaum - “Sexism in the French New Wave.”

Assignment for the week. Graduates, please email essay to me at elkrugamigos@earthlink.net; undergraduates, please bring a printed copy to class:
All of tonight’s films make very particular, idiosyncratic use of voice-over. I want you to discuss how the voice-over operates in one of these films – or two or more of them, if you can do it in just two pages and offer both a solid argument and strong examples.