Visual Culture of French speaking countries

  • Credits: 4
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 1
  • Faculty of Applied Languages

Teachers

Included in study programs

Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication

Teaching results

Knowledge:
• To provide an introduction to the visual culture to the students and to acquaint them with the analysis and interpretation of multimodal texts of various media within the French speaking countries. Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to: understand and use critical vocabulary for visual literacy; describe, discuss and analyze different visual forms and media from different cultural and historical perspectives; assess and summarize arguments in critical texts, apply the understanding of social, political, aesthetic and economic context to the interpretation of works of art; use analytical thinking, critical vocabulary and creative observation on projects; formulate, support and develop new arguments in oral, visual and written forms and find connections between cultural products and historical events, and relevant literary movements.
Competencies:
• development of critical thinking and reasoning;
• development of digital competence, in particular, fostering media and information competences;
• development of competences for a democratic culture and intercultural dialogue, i.e. projection of acquired knowledge, skills and abilities to promote a society based on the values of freedom, justice, equality and pluralism.
Skills:
• fluent, coherent and appropriate oral and written expression in French language;
• capacity for academic debate on the different topics addressed in class;
• ability in interpersonal relations and teamwork;
• application of theoretical knowledge to practice;
• critical thinking and critical skills to analyse, evaluate and make judgements on the content of multimodal texts of the French speaking countries;
• situating the texts analysed within the historical context in which they have been produced in order to assist in making evaluative judgments about them;
• identifying and interpreting the meaning(s) of textual element, possibly by comparing and relating those elements to what is already known and identifying similarities and differences;
• to deepen the meaning of the texts analysed, including the underlying motives, intentions and agendas of those who produced or created them.

Indicative content

- Introduction to visual culture
- Painting
- Photography
- Cinematography
- Contemporary art
- Visual adaptation of literary texts

Support literature

Required:
1. CADET, Christiane – CHARLES, René – GALUS, Jean-Luc. La communication par l’image. Paris: Nathan, 2013. 159 pp. ISBN 978-2-0916-2831-8.
2. CASETTI, Francesco – SOMAINI, Antonio (éds.). La haute et la basse définition des images. Photographie, cinéma, art contemporain, culture visuelle. Sesto S. Giovanni: Mimésis, 2021. 363 pp. ISBN 978-88-6976-251-2.
3. JOLY, Martine – MARTIN, Jessie. Introduction à l’analyse de l’image. 4e édition. Paris: Armand Colin, 2021. 172 pp. ISBN 978-2-200-62999-1.
4. SEMPRINI, Andrea. Communiquer par l’image. Trois essais de culture visuelle. Limoges: PU de Limoges, 2016. 238 pp. ISBN 978-2-84287-695-1.
5. VANOYE, Francis. L’adaptation littéraire au cinéma. Paris: Armand Colin, 2019. 192 pp. ISBN 978-2-200-62555-9.
Optional:
1. BANDA, Daniel – MOURE, José (éds.). Le cinéma : naissance d’un art (1895-1920). Paris: Flammarion, 2008. 532 pp. ISBN 978-2-08-121011-0.
2. BARNIER, Martin – JULLIER, Laurent. Une brève histoire du cinéma. 1895-2020. Paris: Hachette Pluriel, 2021. 469 pp. ISBN 978-2-8185-0624-0.
3. CASTRO, Teresa. La pensée cartographique des images. Cinéma et culture visuelle. Lyon: Aléas, 2011. 260 pp. ISBN 978-2-84301-297-6.
4. CLERC, Jeanne-Marie – CARCAUD-MACAIRE, Monique. L’adaptation cinématographique et littéraire. Paris: Klincksieck, 2004. 214 pp. ISBN 978-2-2520-3453-8.
5. DELMAS, Laurent (éd.). Cinéma. La grande histoire du 7e art. Paris: Larousse, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN 978-2-03-599062-4.
6. DUTEL, Jérôme (éd.). Adaptation littéraire et courts métrages d’animation. Au milieu de l’image coulent les textes. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN 978-2-3431-9756-2.
7. GRAHAM-DIXON, Andrew. Art. Histoire de l’art en images. Paris: Flammarion, 2021. 612 pp. ISBN 978-2-08-025786-4.
8. LEMOINE, Serge (éd.) L’art moderne et contemporain. Peinture, sculpture, photographie, graphisme, nouveaux médias. Paris: Larousse, 2018. 312 pp. ISBN978-2-03-595478-7.

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
30 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

French

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 06.05.2022