Preparatory reading

FRENCH SUGGESTED READING

LANGUAGE

Margaret Jubb, Upgrade your French (Arnold, 2007). Designed to help the transition between school and University, this text sets out a month-long revision programme, with daily exercises on particular grammar topics. It will be very helpful to you to have worked your way through this text before you arrive at Warwick.

Jacqueline Morton, English Grammar for Students of French (Arnold, 2013). A useful read if you struggle with linguistic terminology!

CULTURE AND IDEAS

Alistair Fox et al, A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (London: Wiley, 2015; especially introduction and sections on Auteurs and Auteurism, Historical Cinema [notably 'Collective Memory and Twentieth-Century History'] and on Diasporic and Postcolonial Cinema)

John D Lyons, French Literature: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Brian Nelson et al, The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Emile Chabal, France (Cambridge: Polity, 2020)

Helen Drake, Contemporary France (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Jonathan Fenby, The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day (London: Simon & Schuster, 2015)

John Gaffney, Political Leadership in France: from Charles de Gaulle to Nicolas Sarkozy (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010)

Vanessa Schwartz, Modern France: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)