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.