Author : Andrew Dickos
Publisher : Contra Mundum Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781940625478
Honor Among Thieves profiles Melville's eventful life & discusses his cinema as an essential body of work in our reckoning of postwar European cinema.
Author : Jean-Pierre Melville
Publisher : London : Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 183871653X
Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville's love of American culture and his controversial critical and political standing in this English language study.
Author : Jean Giono
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681371383
Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick, Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle. Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville.
Author : Jean Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
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Author : Jean-Pierre Melville
Publisher : Viking
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2008-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520254023
"Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."—Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity
Author : Henry Rousso
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a vivid memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. How has this proud nation dealt with les annees noires? What is the collective memory of those few years: what have the French chosen to remember, what have they chosen to conceal?
Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136214860
The second edition of this innovative textbook brings together leading scholars to provide detailed analyses of twenty-two key films within the canon of French cinema, from the 1920s to the 1990s. Films discussed include: * masterpieces such as Renoir's La Bete Humaine and Carne's Les Enfants du Paradis * popular classics such as Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot and Ma Nuit chez Maud * landmarks of the New Wave such as Les 400 Coups and A bout de souffle * important films of the 1990s such as Nikita and La Haine The films are considered in relation to such issues as the history of French cinema, the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, the relationship with Hollywood cinema, gender politics, authorship and genre. Each article is accompanied with a guide to further reading and a filmography of the director, and the new edition also includes a fully revised introduction and a bibliography on French cinema.
Author : Anthony Lane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 030748887X
Anthony Lane on Con Air— “Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.” Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County— “I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy’s Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certainly looked happy with his purchase, whereas I had to ask for a paper bag.” Anthony Lane on Martha Stewart— “Super-skilled, free of fear, the last word in human efficiency, Martha Stewart is the woman who convinced a million Americans that they have the time, the means, the right, and—damn it—the duty to pipe a little squirt of soft cheese into the middle of a snow pea, and to continue piping until there are ‘fifty to sixty’ stuffed peas raring to go.” For ten years, Anthony Lane has delighted New Yorker readers with his film reviews, book reviews, and profiles that range from Buster Keaton to Vladimir Nabokov to Ernest Shackleton. Nobody’s Perfect is an unforgettable collection of Lane’s trademark wit, satire, and insight that will satisfy both the long addicted and the not so familiar.
