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)
Lyrics of La Marseillaise
Edith Piaf's La MarseillaiseLink opens in a new window
Edith Piaf's Ça ira!Link opens in a new window!
Core secondary readings
Laura Mason, 'Celebrating Popular Revolution: Jean Renoir’s La Marseillaise (1938)Link opens in a new window', 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, “European History in Text and Film: Community and Identity in France, 1550-1945”, 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.