FRN 3122 City of Lights: Paris in Literature And Film
Paris, the City of Light, has and continues to be the center for art, architecture, literature, gastronomy, and fashion. This course will focus on the representation of Paris in literary and cinematic texts from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century. We will begin with the period of the reconstruction of Paris by Baron de Haussmann from the 1850s through the 1870s, study Paris during the Belle Epoque (1871-1914), examine the role played by African American and other American expatriates in the City of Light of the 1920s and 30s, investigate Paris during the Occupation (1940-44), explore Paris as the center of political and social unrest of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally, analyze contemporary Paris as a multicultural and multiethnic crucible. This is an interdisciplinary course that will use literature and film as its primary lens but will also draw from other academic disciplines (3 cr.) (No prerequisites) (Taught in English).