Seminar Reading: Week 10
The French Revolution: a cinematographic perspective
SCREENING OF FILM
Tuesday Dec 3, 6pm FAB5.01
Core primary source
Jean Renoir, La Marseillaise (1938), in French (subtitled)
of La Marseillaise
Edith Piaf's
Edith Piaf's !
Core secondary readings
Laura Mason, '', on H-France.
Tom Brown, 'The Performance of History in La Marseillaise', in Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vindendeau (eds), A Companion to Jean Renoir (Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Ronald Schechter, 'Translating the "Marseillaise": Biblical Republicanism and the Emancipation of Jews in Revolutionary France', Past & Present, 143 (1994), pp. 128-155.
Also of Interest
Sarah Hanley, 鈥淓uropean History in Text and Film: Community and Identity in France, 1550-1945鈥�, French Historical Studies - Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002, pp. 3-19.
Laura Mason, Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1787-1799 (1997), pp. 93-129.