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On successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
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explain the ways in which films make meaning, though textual analysis of techniques such as editing, mise en scène etc., and use the découpage format as a means of analyzing film form;
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understand how cultural texts such as films emerge through a combination of social, political and economic processes;
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recognise the relation between film narratives and wider social and ideological 'stories';
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appreciate the close relation between text and context through knowledge of French history, society and politics;
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discuss comfortably some key examples of French cinema, including its most important modern directors, and give an informed account of its chief concerns, including gender, ethnicity and history, as well as its main formal aspects and genres.
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