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Survey of French cinema, focusing on the relationship between the city of Paris and the history and culture of French films. Films depicting Paris as a location and setting. Mythology of Paris constructed onscreen as an introduction to the diversity of urban geography and the unique forms of public space. Films include the silent era; the 1930s period of poetic realism; the Nouvelle Vague's portraits of Paris in the era of postwar prosperity; and the city's changing ethnic composition in the contemporary era of globalization. Field trips to historic movie houses such as Le Grand Rex, Studio 28, and Le Campo Espace Tati, as well as the Cinémathèque française.