On tourne! is a one-semester, advanced French textbook (5th/6th semester of instruction) designed to be used as a stand-alone text for a course on French and francophone films or for a French conversation course. This textbook could also be used as a supplementary text in an advanced conversation course, a composition course, or a contemporary culture course. On tourne! guides students to analyze and discuss 13 films from France and the francophone world. Each chapter focuses on a single film and includes pre-viewing activities, vocabulary, information on the cultural and linguistic nuances of the film, and post-viewing activities and discussion points. Moreover, each chapter contains a review of an essential grammatical structure as well as idiomatic expressions used in the film to highlight their pragmatic function. The films included explore a wide array of themes, ranging from family, food, and fashion to politics, religion, and racial/ethnic identities.

Véronique Anover is a professor of French and Spanish at California State University San Marcos. She is the coauthor of, among other books, A vous!, a first-year French program.Rémi Fournier Lanzoni is an associate professor of romance languages at Wake Forest University. He is the author of several books on French and Italian cinema.

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Chapitre Préliminaire 1. Comme un chef— La gastronomie2. Samba— L’immigration3. L’arnacœur— L’amour4. Le prénom— La famille5. La French— Le polar6. Intouchables— L’amitié7. Yves Saint Laurent— La mode8. Made in France— Le terrorisme9. Les adieux à la reine— L’histoire10. Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont— La France des villages11. Rock the Casbah— La francophonie12. Cloclo— La musique13. Les héritiers— L’Education nationaleIndex

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