From Dana Polan...

 

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"The Paris Center for Critical Studies invites applications for the 1995-1996

academic year (or semesters) from advanced undergraduates and graduate students

interested in taking courses taught by luminaries of the French intellectual

scene in areas such as film history and aesthetics, contemporary French

philosophy and critical thought, literary criticism and French literature, and

suchlike.  Current courses include:  Cinema and Popular Culture; Sex, Class, and

Nation in French Cinema, 1930s-1950s; Cinema and Photography; Roland Barthes and

Contemporary Thought; Between Documentary and Fiction; French Film of the 1930s;

Films of Stanley Kubrick; Sartre and Flaubert; French Writing Workshop;

Caribbean and African Film; The "I" in Literature; Subjectivity and Sexual

Difference.  Our film courses are taught by such figures as Noel Burch, Michel

Marie, Michele Lagny, Philippe Dubois, Roger Odin, Dana Polan.  All courses are

taught in French and are preceded by a several week intensive language program.

 

        The program has cross-registration agreements with the Universite de

Paris III (la Sorbonne Nouvelle), where many of the major French film professors

teach courses on film history and theory, and with the College International de

Philosophie.  We encourage students to take courses out-of--center in order to

study with other important figures on the French scene (for instance, there are

students right now taking classes with Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, the

historian Roger Chartier).

        We also run a regular conference series.  This year, we've had talks by

(among others):  Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gerard Genette, Janet Bergstrom, Tom

Levin, Pierre Sorlin.  In March, a series of events will be devoted to classical

french cinema (including lectures by Dudley Andrew and Genevieve Sellier).

        In addition to the academic program, the Center also facilitates the

logistics of a stay in France including processing of students'

cartes-de-sejour,opening of French bank accounts, and obtaining Paris university

student cards.  There is also a highly efficient and effective housing service

that helps students find lodging.  We also organize various outings and cultural

events (for example, there is a group that regular goes to the Theatre de

l'Odeon at a discounted price, we've done visits to Chateaux in the Loire

valley, and so on).

        There is a videotheque at the Center with 2 multistandard VCRs/monitors

and a large collection of classics of French and American cinema.

        The Program is sponsored by the Council on International Educational

Exchange, a non-profit organization.  Current fees (payable to CIEE in NY) are

fall semester:  $5950, spring semester $5750, academic year:  $8750.

 

        For further information on the content of the program:  contact the

Resident Director, Dana Polan, by mail (Centre Parisien d'Etudes Critiques, 1

place de l'Odeon, 75006, Paris, France) or by email

([log in to unmask]).  For application materials, write to:  University

Programs, CIEE, 205 E. 42 St., NY, NY 10017-5706 USA."