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This multi-media course will focus on the various representations of the double theme Étrange/Étranger in French literature, culture and society of the 19th and 20th centuries through a series of films/documentaries, poems, plays, novels, and short stories. What is strange? Who is a stranger? While close readings of texts and films will seek above all to shed light on the complex meanings of the two themes of l’étrange et l’étranger (strange/stranger, foreign/foreigner) as they have appeared in literature, philosophy, historiography, and the other arts, we will at the same time highlight the artistic, historical, and intellectual issues related to the opposing figures (i.e. Citizen, Friend, Slave, Native) as they are represented in the major literary movements of this long period, notably romanticism, realism, symbolism, naturalism, surrealism, and existentialism. Conducted entirely in French.