Representing the Streets of Paris: A Cinematic City

ENC 4956
Dr. Maureen Turim

A special course in which students will visit sites famous for their presence in films about Paris, concentrating on understanding how different sections of Paris become the representation of different classes and styles of daily life. Cafés, restaurants, and avenues, parks and buildings, subways and bus lines: how do films use, indeed create, the space of the city? We will also see exhibitions relating to cinema, watch films at the Cinémathèque Française and other Parisian theaters, look at exhibitions of photography and painting that correlate to cinematic representations, visit libraries devoted to the arts, as well as the vidéotheque. We will look at the role multimedia presentations play in Parisian museums, and meet with an experimental filmmaker. Students will turn in analytical diaries of their discoveries, illustrated by their photographs and collected documentation, then annotated and supplemented by their reading and film viewings.

Tentative Schedule

Saturday

Departure from US, Overnight flight

Sunday

Arrival at Charles de Gaulle Airport
Transfer to hotels

2:00
Special screening of Lang film at Musée d'Orsay

4:00
Brief Reception at the Paris Research Center
Distribution of Metro passes/Student cards

5:00
Group dinner

7:00
Concert at the Sainte Chapelle

9:00
Bateau mouche ride on the Seine

Monday

New Wave Cinema, Godard, Rohmer, Chabrol
Film references:
Breathless (A Bout du soufflé)
Mina Tannenbaum

10:00 - 11:00
Orientation at the Paris Paris Research Center

11:00 - 12:00
GUEST LECTURE: Yann Beauvais (16mm film projection, and/or video)
did an exhibition on films about Paris with a catalogue

12:00 - 2:00
Lunch with guest speaker

2:00-6:00
Monumental landmarks as sites of cinema: Place Vendome, Opera Garnier, Académie Française, Madeleine, Concorde, Champs-Elysées -Etoile- Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower.

MUSEUM ADMISSION: Musée de la mode et du costume
10, av. Pierre Ier de Serbie

Time TBA
Late afternoon film at Champs-Elysées cinema or Cinémathèque Chaillot

7:00 - 9:00
Group dinner at Cousin-Cousine (crêpes are named after films)

Tuesday

Film references:
Cléo from Five to Seven (Cléo de 5 à 7)
La Maternelle

9:00 - 12:00
Rue Mouftard to Censier to site of the new Cinémathèque Française (former American Center -- architect= Frank Gehry ) 51 rue de Bercy then to Parc Montsouris, stopping to see neighborhoods to boulevard peripherique, to Bois du Boulogne

12:00
Lunch on your own

2:00 - 6:00
MUSEUM ADMISSION: Cité de la musique

Time TBA
Late afternoon film at Cinémathèque Grands Boulevards

Wednesday

Film references:
L'Atalante
Le Jour se lève, Les Nuits fauves (Savage nights)

9:00 - 12:00
MUSEUM ADMISSION: Beaubourg
Expos:
Sophie Calle : M'as-tu vue
Her film No Sex Last Night Sophie Calle , 1996, is currently having a retrospective screening at the ENTREPÔT in Paris.

Cy Twombly : 50 années de dessin
US artist known for his postmodern paintings and drawings based on graffiti, erasure, and doodling.

12:00 - 2:00
Lunch on your own

3:00 - 4:00
Visit to L'E.I.C.A.R., the école de cinema (cinema production school)

4:00 - 6:00
Notre Dame de Paris, walk through Marais, Canal St. Martin

6:30 - 9:00
Attend an MTV filming

Thursday

Film references:
Menilmontant
Rien que les heures
Salut Cousin !
Amélie from Montmartre

9:00 - 12:00
Ménilmontant, Montmartre

12:00 - 2:00
Lunch on your own

2:00 - 6:00
MUSEUM ADMISSION: Louvre

6:00 - 8:00
Vidéothèque Forum des Images, Les Halles
Film at cinématheque :
Salle des Grands Boulevards
42 bd Bonne Nouvelle
75009 Paris

Friday

9:00 - 4:00
Versailles

7:30 - 11:00
Group dinner at L'Entrepôt followed by concert
7-9, rue Francis-de-Pressensé, 75014 Paris
M° Pernety

7:30
Group farewell dinner at l'Entrepôt

Saturday

AM departure from Paris

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