Author : Sylvie Blum-Reid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137553545
Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the escape, nomadic wandering, interior voyages, the unlikely travel, rituals, pilgrimages, migrants' narratives and emergencies, women's travel, and healing narratives.
Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781904764670
Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. Crossing New Europe investigates this tradition, its relationship with the American road movie and its aesthetic forms. This movement examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises, and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in postmodern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari and other critical theorists, Crossing New Europe adopts a broad interpretation of "Europe" and discusses directors and films who have long been associated with the road movie, such as Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story) and Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America!), and other more recent contributions such as Run Lola Run, Dear Diary and The Last Resort.
Author : Neil Archer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857457713
The traditionally American genre of the road movie has been explored and reconfigured in the French context since the later 1960s. Comparative in its approach, this book studies the inter-relationship between American and French culture and cinemas, and in the process considers and challenges histories of the road movie. It combines film history with film theory methodologies, analysing transformations in social, political and film-industrial contexts alongside changing perspectives on the meaning and possibilities of film. At once chronological and thematic in structure, The French Road Movie provides in each chapter a comprehensive introduction to key themes emerging from the genre in the French context – liberty, identity and citizenship, masculinity, femininity, border-crossing – followed by detailed, innovative and often revisionist readings of the chosen films. Through these readings the author justifies the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorates this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.
Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9780999468364
"The two demonstrate a profound shared passion, a way of literally being one with a medium and speaking about it with a dazzling lyricism interspersed with dryly ironic remarks, fueled by a conviction that inspires them to traverse history. Their point of intersection is obvious. Duras, a writer, is also a filmmaker, and Godard, a filmmaker, has maintained a distinctive relationship with literature, writing and speech."--Cyril Béghin, back cover.
Author : Adam Long
Publisher : Broadway Play Pub
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780881453331
This play interprets the past as a breathlessly-paced sequence of silly vaudeville sketches ... puns and crude parodies of movie and television genres."
Author : Chretien de Troyes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1987-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300187580
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Author : Oliver Henry Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Bibliography
ISBN :
Author : E. H. Mikhail
Publisher : London : Macmillan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Charlotte Lance
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1743317816
I have a dog. An inconvenient dog. When I wake up, my dog is inconvenient. When I'm getting dressed, my dog is inconvenient. And when I'm making tunnels, my dog is SUPER inconvenient. But sometimes, an inconvenient dog can be big and warm and cuddly. Sometimes, an inconvenient dog can be the most comforting friend in the whole wide world.
Author : Michael Bounds
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of urban social theory within the history of social thought. It's an accessible and comprehensive coverage of the major social theorists and schools.
