Some Recommended Reference Books
The Companion to French Cinema
REF PN1993.5.F7 V55 1996
French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939
REF PN1995 .A22 1988
French-Speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide
REF PN1998.2 .P28 1997
Historical Dictionary of French Cinema
REF PN1993.5.F7 O83 2007
Apprentissage du cinema francais. Livre de l'etudiant
PN1993.5.F7 S5412 2004
French Cinema. The Student's Book.
PN1993.5.F7 S5413 2006
Contemporary French Cinema (2nd edition)
PN1993.5.F7 A95 2008
France at the Flicks
PN1993.5.F7 F65 2007
French Film: Texts and Contexts
PN1993.5.F7 F74 2000
FREN 333/FRCV333 Exploring French Culture Through Film: Films on Course Reserve (Spring 2010)
French 334/FRCV334 Exploring French Literature through Film: Films for Final Paper
In our Library collection:
* indicates Professor Hahn has text
L'Amant/The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
DVD PQ2607.U8245 A62613 2006
Video PQ2607.U8245 A5 1992
Angèle (film by Marcel Pagnol; based on novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono)
Video PQ2613.I57 A6 1988
La Belle et la bête/Beauty and the Beast* (Mme LePrince de Baumont)
Video PN1997 .B415 1993
La Bête humaine (Émile Zola)
Video PQ2498 .A2 1985
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Molière)
Video PQ1829 .A37 1986
Carmen (opera by Georges Bizet, author Prosper Mérimée, several film versions)
DVD M1503.B625 C26 2005 (von Karajan, conductor)
Video ML50.B625 B59 1987 (dir. Rosi)
DVD PQ2362 .C32 2007 (dir. Saura; Spanish)
Le Château de ma mère* (Marcel Pagnol)
Video PQ2631.A26 M85 1992
Chloé in the Afternoon* (Eric Rohmer)
Video PN1997 .C47 1995
Le Comte de Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Video PQ2226 .A31 1986 (1923 silent American film)
Cousine Bette (Honoré de Balzac)
DVD PQ2165 .C52 1998 (American version)
Cyrano (author Edmond Rostand; 4 film versions, including "Roxanne"; analyze scenes not shown/discussed in class)
Video PQ2635.O7 C97 1997 (with actor Jose Ferrar)
DVD PQ2635.O7 C922 2003 (with actor Jose Ferrar)
DVD PQ2635.O7 C93 2004 (dir. Rappeneau)
Video PN1997 .C97 1991 (dir. Rappeneau)
Video PQ2635.O7 C92 1984 (dir. Hands)
DVD PQ2635.O7 C94 2008 (dir. Leveaux and Diamond)
DVD PQ2635.O7 C912 1999 (silent film with French and English subtitles; dir. Genina)
Roxanne: DVD PN1997 .R68 2005
Roxanne: Video PN1997 .R69 1987
Les Diaboliques (Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac; 2 film adaptations)
DVD PQ2603.O274 C741 1998
Video PN1995.9.F67 D53 1989
Video PN1997 .D513 1996 (American version)
Diary of a Country Priest (Georges Bernanos)
DVD PQ2603.E5875 J59 2004
En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
DVD PR6003.E282 B32 2001 (dir. Lindsay-Hogg)
Entre les murs/The Class* (François Bégaudeau)
DVD PQ2702.E34 E5813 2009 (dir. Laurent Cantet)
Le Genou de Claire/Claire's Knee* (Eric Rohmer)
Video PN1997 .G35 1995
Gervaise/L'Assommoir (Émile Zola)
Video PQ2496 .M38 1995
La Gloire de mon père* (Marcel Pagnol)
Video PQ2631.A26 G513 1992
The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Notre-Dame de Paris (Victor Hugo)
DVD PQ2288 .A31 2006 (1923 American silent film)
Jean de Florette (Marcel Pagnol)
Video PQ2631.A26 J42 1988
Jules et Jim (Henri-Pierre Roché)
Video PQ2635.O1958 J8 1992
Ma nuit chez Maud/My Night at Maud's* (Eric Rohmer)
Video PN1997 .M9 1987
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
DVD PQ2246 .M2 2007 (dir. Minnelli)
Video PQ2246 .M2 1990 (dir. Chabrol)
Manon des sources (Marcel Pagnol)
Video PQ2631.A26 M26 1988
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo); several versions
DVD PQ2287.M5 E5 2006 (dir. August)
Video PQ2286.A2 L4 1996 (dir. LeLouch)
DVD PQ2287.M5 E49 2007 (dir. Boleslawski)
DVD PQ2286.A2 L42 2004 (dir. Jordan)
Video PQ2286.A2 L4 1992(dir. Chanois)
Passion in the Desert (from Honoré de Balzac novella; film in English, not much
dialogue)
Video PQ2167 .P18 1998
Persepolis (graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi; context Iran, Paris, Vienna)
DVD PK6562.29.A87 P477 2008
Phèdre (Jean Racine)
Video PQ1898 .A5 1982
La Reine Margot/Queen Margot (Alexandre Dumas)
DVD PN1997 .R442 1995b
La Rue Cases-Nègres* (Joseph Zobel)
DVD PQ3949.Z6 R75 2004
Sacred night/La nuit sacrée* (Tahar Ben Jelloun; film has no
subtitles)
Video PQ3989.2.J4 E53 1989
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby)
DVD RC388.5 .B39513 2008
Tartuffe (Molière)
Video PQ1842 .A37 1991 (dir. Depardieu)
Video PQ1842.A4 H2 1984 (dir. Alexander; Royal Shakespeare Company)
Not in our Library collection:
* indicates Professor Hahn has text
** indicates Professor Hahn has copy of film
Antigone
La Belle au bois dormant/Sleeping beauty (Charles Perrault)
Bonheur d'occasion*** (Gabrielle Roy)
Le Bossu (Paul Féval)
Boule de suif (Guy de Maupassant)
Le Capitaine Fracasse (Théophile Gautier)
Cendrillon/Cinderella (Charles Perrault)
La Chartreuse de Parme (Stendhal)
Les Fous de bassan*** (Anne Hébert)
Furia (sci-fi, short story by Faval; Dog Ear Video, Libertyville)
Le Hussard sur le toit/Horseman on the Roof (Jean Giono)
La Leçon*** (Eugène Ionesco)
Le Masque de fer/The Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas)
Mondo** (Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio)
Les Mystères de Paris (Eugène Sue)
Nana (Émile Zola)
Parapluie (short story by Guy de Maupassant, in French)
Une Partie de campagne* (Guy de Maupassant)
La Parure (short story by Guy de Maupassant, in French)
Le Petit chaperon rouge/Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault)
Le Petit prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
La Princesse de Clèves (Madame de Lafayette)
Qui sait? (short story by Guy de Maupassant, in French)
Le Rouge et le noir/Red and the Black (Stendhal)
Les Trois mousquétaires (Alexandre Dumas)
La Tulipe noire (Alexandre Dumas)
Uranus (Marcel Aymé)
Un Vagabond frappe à notre porte/A tramp at the door (French-Canadian, early 20th-century short story by Gabrielle Roy, from Un Jardin au bout du vent/Garden in the Wind, autobiographical)
Le Vieillard et l'enfant*** (author Gabrielle Roy)
Zazie dans le métro* (Raymond Queneau)
Journals
Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Film History (1987-2003)
Film History (2005 on)
Databases
Use databases to find newspaper or journal articles. Use ILLiad to interlibrary loan articles that are not in full text in a database or in print in the Library.
EBSCOhost Databases: Academic Search Premier and Communication & Mass Media Complete
JSTOR (multidisciplinary)
Project Muse (multidisciplinary)
SocIndex (sociology)
Google Scholar (for finding additional academic books and articles)
Bibliotheque du Film (BiFi) (Some entries have a bibliography.)
Première: Cinema (website of French magazine)
Tativille: Le site officiel de Jacques Tati (French and English)
- RefWorks is a bibliographic citation manager which can be used to save and organize your references, create a bibliography in the citation style of your choice, and help generate in-text citations or footnotes with the accompanying bibliography.
- Lake Forest College Citation Guides for Online Sources
- Hacker Guide Companion Website
- College Statement on Plagiarism
- Search by article citation page (for finding out what access the library has to a given article)
- CUFTS (for finding out what databases index a given journal)