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Combining AUP's liberal
arts tradition with hands-on practice in film
and video, the Film Studies Department provides
students with a strong background in the
history, aesthetics and theory of film, and
introduces them to the practical arts of
writing, directing and producing.
Uniquely situated in Paris,
the birthplace of movies, the program looks
three ways: to Europe and its most important
cinematic traditions (Italian, German, French,
East European, Spanish, Scandinavian); to the
United States, as the American commercial and
independent cinemas are core to AUP Film
Studies' theory and practice; and to emerging
cinemas in an increasingly globalized world
(including the Middle East, Africa, Asia and
Latin America). Because of our location,
students have the rare chance to explore film
through unique, prestigious film institutions
such as La Cinémathèque and Le Forum des Images.
Building on AUP’s international education
approach, the Film Studies Department exposes
and sensitizes students to different ways of
thinking and creating, to contrasting styles of
filmand video-making, and to different modes of
production. To prepare students to enter the
competitive film industry, bridges are built to
the real world of cinema. Strong connections
with professionals are forged through master
classes, festivals, lectures and internships. In
addition, students get to visit festivals and
studios in Berlin and other European cities.
This degree is offered in
cooperation with the Department of Global
Communications and also draws on courses from
other departments.
Student Learning Outcomes
Film Studies graduates will
emerge with a broad knowledge of the history and
development of the major traditions in World
Cinema. They will understand the interface
between cinema and the particular cultures and
societies where it flourishes. They will also
have reflected on cinema's characteristics, and
its connections to other arts (including
literature, photography, music, painting and
architecture). Film students will have been
trained in visual literacy, having learned to
master and employ the grammar of film syntax,
and to delineate image components and narrative
structures, including genres. They will have
acquired analytical skills, be competent in film
theory and be capable of writing critical
essays.
Because cinema is an
industry as well as an art form, students will
also have learned to think critically about the
aesthetics and modes of film production. They
will have acquired the basic techniques of
camera, audio, lighting, editing, and learned
how to make (write, shoot, direct, edit) short
digital videos, working in production teams.
Through attendance at master classes and
festivals, they will have further developed the
capacity of professional networking.
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For more information about the
programs offered in the Department of Film Studies, you may
contact the Department Chair: |
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Contact
Nathalie Debroise |
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debroise@aup.edu |
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+33 1 40.62.06.00 ext. 637 |
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Pierre Villey, AUP: 11, rue Pierre
Villey, 75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg,
Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides) |
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Major in
FILM STUDIES |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 1010 College Writing, EN 2020 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 2035 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Required
(20 credits)
FM 1010 Films and their Meanings or
CM 1023 Media Analysis
FM/CM 1019 Principles of Video Production
FM 2075 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film I or
FM 2076 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film II
FM 3027 Film Theory and Criticism
FM 3096 Junior Seminar in Film Studies
GROUP A
Film Pragmatics and the Art of Directing
Select three from the following
(12 credits)
FM/CM 2018 Writing Fiction for Television
FM 2025 Set Design in Cinema
FM/CL 2028 The Art of Screenwriting
FM/CM 2032 Paris Documentaries (if not taken in Film Genres and Topics)
FM 2038 Producers and Producing
FM 2080 Film Directors: Orson Welles and His Inheritors
FM 2081 Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
FM 2082 Film Directors: Tarantino and his Many Fathers
FM 2086 The American New Wave: Penn, Altman, Scorsese
FM 3063 Making a Documentary
FM 3081 The Editing Process
CM 4028 Advanced Video Production
GROUP B
Film Genres and Topics
Select two from the following
(8 credits)
FM/FS 2045 Photographie et le cinéma
FM 2090 Film Noir
FM 2091 The Western
FM 2092 Women and Film
FM 2093 Cinema and Poetry
FM/PL 2095 Philosophy and Film
FM 2097 Film Genres and Topics: European Cinema and the Body
FM 2098 Cinema and the Political
FM 3000 Topics in Film Studies
FM/ES 3000 Topics: The Film Culture of Europe’s Cities
FM/CM 2032 Paris Documentaries (if not taken in Film Pragmatics)
FM/FR 3011 Issues in Contemporary French Film and Literature
FM/CL 3048 Shakespeare and Film
FM/CL 3069 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction
FM/FR 3077 Du livre à l’image
FM/FR 3079 Prostitution and Cinema
CM/AN 3049 Media and Ethnography
CM/GS 3053 Media and Gender
CM 3062 Media Semiotics
AH/ES 3016 Society and Spectacle: Painting, Photography and Film in Germany
and Russia
GROUP C
International Cinema
Select two from the following
(8 credits)
FM 3072 German Cinema
FM 3073 Asian Cinema
FM/CM 3074 Italian Cinema
FM 3075 East European Cinema
FM 3076 Arab Cinema
FM 3078 Iberian and Latin American Cinema
FM/FR 3086 French Cinema: La Nouvelle Vague
FM/FR 3087 Paris Cinema
Senior Project
FM 4095 Senior Project (4 credits)
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 Credits
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Lawrence
Pitkethly's article on "The Burning of
Bombay Street" was published on the BBCNI
website on March 7 to coincide with the
broadcast of the documentary that evening
on BBCNI. He was also interviewed live
that morning for BBC radio. |
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[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2011] |
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Lawrence
Pitkethly has produced the filming of a
documentary, Comrade Duch, on the life and
crimes of Kaing Guek Eav, formerly
commandant of the notorious Tuol Sleng
prison in Cambodia. Duch was accused by
the ECCC tribunal in Phnom Penh of murder
and crimes against humanity, found guilty
in July 2010, and sentenced. The
documentary, directed by Adrian Maben,
follows Duch's story from gifted
mathematics teacher to war criminal to
born again Christian. The film will be
broadcast by ITVS, the international
outlet of PBS in the United States, and by
the BBC to help commemorate the 50th
anniversary of Amnesty International in
2011. It will also be broadcast in Norway,
Denmark and Australia. |
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[AUP - Posted 1 Oct 2010] |
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Lawrence
Pitkethly is the on-camera host of a new
BBC documentary, "The Burning of Bombay
Street," that will be broadcast on BBC
Northern Ireland in September 2010. The
documentary, which includes a sequence
shot at The American University of Paris,
tells the story of a single Belfast street
across 40 years of conflict through the
eyes of one reporter. Cameras followed
Pitkethly from Paris to Belfast in June
and recorded him in conversation with
residents, former paramilitaries, and
members of the clergy. |
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[AUP - Posted 15 Sep 2010] |
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Jérôme
Game has been invited to deliver a
key-note paper at the 'Poetic Practice and
the Practice of Poetics in French since
1945' international conference to be held
at London University and the University of
Cambridge on 16-17 July 2010. Professor
Game's paper is titled "A Poetics on the
verge - Thoughts on contemporary French
Poetry." In late May he contributed an
article entitled "In & Out, ou comment
sortir du livre pour mieux y retourner -
et réciproquement," for a special issue of
the journal
Littérature entitled "La
littérature exposée. Les écritures
contemporaines hors du livre." Jérôme
Game is the laureate of a
Mission
Stendhaloffered by the French
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères to
selected writers to carry out a research
project wherever they want in the world.
Professor Game will travel to Hong Kong,
Beijing and Shanghai throughout this
summer to write a book on Asian cinema in
its relation to literature. On 11 June
Professor Game will receive Vincent Vivès
of l'Université Aix-Marseille in his "Intensité
de l'art" seminar held at l'Ecole Normale
Supérieure. Professor Vivès's talk is
entitled "Intensité, quantum d'affect,
séries proliférantes: le cas Nietzsche." |
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[AUP - Posted 17 June 2010] |
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On
14 May Jérôme Game will deliver a paper
entitled "Le 'cut-up' du hoquet critique
au (pré-)texte esthétique" in the "Pratiques
du détournement dans les discours
littéraire et critique aux XXe et XXIe
siècles" panel of the 2010 Congress of the
Association Francophone pour le Savoir
held at Université de Montréal. On 17 May
he will address the Atelier de Création
Poétique of Université Paris IV / ENS on
contemporary poetics. On 18 May Professor
Game will present a paper on "L'esthétique
cinématographique et la littérature
contemporaine" at the Ecole Supérieure
d'Art of Lorient. |
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[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010] |
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In
early March Jérôme Game delivered papers
in the Departments of Art History &
Communication Studies and French Language
& Literature of McGill University in
Montreal. The papers dealt with the
aesthetics of narrative in contemporary
visual arts and fiction. On April 2
Professor Game will speak at the Ecritures
de l'entre-deux event organised by the
Institut des Mondes Anglophone, Germanique
et Roman (EA 3958) of l'Université Paris
Est-Créteil in a roundtable entitled 'Ecrire
dans une autre langue'. On April 9 he will
receive philosopher Elie During of
l'Université Paris X-Nanterre in his 'Intensité
de l'art' séminaire which Professor Game
organises at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
of Paris. Professor During will speak on
"La force comique selon Bergson :
qu'est-ce qu'une analyse intensive?" |
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