La France contemporaine À travers ses films - Softcover

Ideally suited for a culture course on contemporary French society as well as for any course intended to prepare students for a semester or year in France.~Concise yet thorough, this manageable text can easily be covered in a single semester ~Unique, fresh and engaging approach to teaching French culture, accommodating a high interest level course with substantial material for classroom discussion and student interaction ~Chapters end with more opportunities for research and study, affording students and instructors alike to further their knowledge of a particular concept, bringing to light the fact that there is always more to know ~Flexible design and presentation affords instructors the ability to easily customize the text to fit their particular syllabus ~Carefully chosen research opportunities, discussion topics, contemporary articles and interviews with actual French citizens provide students with a meaningful and relevant grasp of current French culture ~Comprehensive Instructor’s Manual, available to qualified adopters, provides valuable teaching aids and suggested classroom activities ~Viewing and discussing feature-length French films with strong, meaningful images of what France really looks like, how it operates, and its cultural norms leads students to a better understanding of a world outside their own.

Anne-Christine Rice is an instructor in the Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University. She completed her Masters degree and DEA (doctoral coursework) in Angers, France, and holds a CAPES, the French national certification for teaching. She is the author of Cinema for French Conversation, Second Edition, as well as the Cine-Module series. She also serves as advisory editor for Focus Publishing's French text series.