Tags: French

The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’s love of stars, spectacle, and popular genres, seeking out more challenging and complex pleasures. Like the art cinema it promotes, cinephilia has long been viewed as a mostly Euro-American phenomenon, a perception that has obscured rich traditions of film appreciation in Africa, Asia, and…
In the world we currently live in, our presence online is almost as important as our presence on campus. Employers today are likely to "meet you" online before they get to see you in person. That is why the GSO has decided to help our graduate students understand and develop their professional presence online with the help of the DigiLab. Join us on Instagram @uga.roml
Nathan Brown, Associate Professor of French and Canada Research Chair in Poetics of Concordia University, Montreal will give a guest lecture on Baudelaire. In one of the key sonnets of Les Fleurs du mal, "Obsession," Baudelaire's speaker declares a resolute orientation toward the void: How you would please me, o night! without these stars Whose light speaks a language we know! For I seek the void, and the black, and the bare! …