#  FRENCH 074 - Moving Images: Global Narratives in Cinema and Graphic Novels 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2027 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-222822/2026/spring/16248) 

 

 

 

We will consider issues related to race, gender, class and ecology as well as aesthetics at the intersection of the written and visual by reading contemporary graphic novels, children’s books and films as both works of art and documentation. This course will include work from and on Senegal, Ivory Coast, Iran, Mauritius, South Korea, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion, France and Quebec. We will consider works by Marguerite Abouet, Shenaz Patel, Kama La Mackerel, Jung, Marjane Satrapi, Jessica Oublié, Thierry Petit Le Brun, Chloé Robichaud and Claire Denis among others.



 

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  [### Usha Rungoo

 ](/people/usha-rungoo) [usha\_rungoo@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:usha_rungoo@fas.harvard.edu)Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

 

 

 Research and teaching interests: Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean Literatures; material and embodied histories; the use of autoethnography, fiction and imagination in rewriting colonized identities, cartographies and histories; extractive... 

 

 

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 See also:- [ 70-100 ](/class-categories/70-100)
- [ Usha Rungoo ](/instructor/usha-rungoo)
- [ French ](/language/french)
- [ Spring 2027 ](/term/spring-2027)