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Screening the Paris Suburbs - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Screening the Paris Suburbs - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The record of French cinema’s many forays into the Paris suburbs is far more than a prehistory of the ‘film de banlieue’. Decades before the emergence – around 1995 – of a self-styled ‘hood’ film in France, filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the City of Light for inspiration and content. In the jumble of spaces surrounding Paris they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions. Idyllic or menacing, wide-open or claustrophobic, these locales served divergent ideological and aesthetic programmes. From the bourgeois villas and vacant lots of Louis Feuillade’s serials of the 1910s and the bucolic watering holes of 1930s poetic realism to the vast post-war housing estates showcased by Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati and Maurice Pialat, the gritty noir décors of Jean-Pierre Melville or the sleek, post-modern new towns shot by Éric Rohmer, the Paris suburbs came to form a key site in the national imaginary.For the first time in English, the fifteen contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long screen history, which intersects with themes central to French cultural modernity, including class conflict, leisure, boredom, alienation and anti-authoritarianism. Diverse in focus and expansive in scope, Screening the Paris suburbs will interest students and scholars of French film, cultural studies and urban/suburban studies.

DKK 530.00
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Paris and the Commune 1871–78 - Colette Wilson - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Paris and the Commune 1871–78 - Colette Wilson - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book is a work of original scholarship that makes a strong contribution to our understanding of French cultural memory. Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871 and particularly about the terrible retribution meted out by the French state on its own citizens; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict.Colette E. Wilson identifies a critical blindspot in French studies which since the 1960s has focused primarily on representations of the Commune by writers and artists who were either Communards themselves or at least sympathetic to the Communard cause. New critical approaches are instead set to work on neglected texts (by Maxime Du Camp), marginalised aspects of the illustrated press ( Le Monde illustré ), early photography (Charles Marville, Edouard-Denis Baldus and Charles Soulier) and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. Wilson writes clearly and authoritatively and her book will be of interest to students and academics working on France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives – war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city’s turbulent past.

DKK 804.00
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La Parisienne in Cinema - Felicity Chaplin - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

La Parisienne in Cinema - Felicity Chaplin - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Chic, sophisticated, seductive, and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi which makes her difficult to define. Who or what la Parisienne is, and how she is depicted in cinema, is the subject of this new and exciting study.In the first book-length publication to explore the Parisienne type on film, Chaplin expands on existing scholarship in the fields of art history, literature, and fashion history, to both enrich the discussion of these films, and to offer new perspectives. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, and drawing on film, art, literature, cultural histories of Paris and popular texts such as fashion magazines and style guides, La Parisienne in cinema covers a wide range of film genres and movements, including silent cinema, French Poetic Realism, the New Wave, Hollywood cinema, the musical, and contemporary and art house cinema. The evolution of a Parisienne iconography is mapped through a series of original and close readings of films as diverse as Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris , Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless , Stanley Donen’s Funny Face and François Ozon’s 8 Women . The book also traces the Parisienne type through her various incarnations as muse, cosmopolite, icon of fashion, femme fatale, courtesan, and star. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary and lively work will be of immediate interest to students and researchers working in Film Studies and French Studies and the broader humanities as well as a general interest audience. It is also essential reading for cinephiles and Francophiles alike.

DKK 804.00
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Painting Her Pleasure - Lauren Jimerson - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Painting Her Pleasure - Lauren Jimerson - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

An inspiring account of three women artists who pioneered new forms of the nude.Even in the bohemian world of avant-garde Paris, certain rules had to be obeyed. One of these rules was that women artists did not paint nudes. Yet three women would challenge this prohibition, offering their own distinct takes on the classic genre.Suzanne Valadon, Émilie Charmy and Marie Vassilieff painted in different styles, but they were united in their fascination for the nude. Their artistic explorations saw them experimenting with a range of cutting-edge subjects, including the male nude, the Black female nude, the pregnant nude and the nude self-portrait, a genre that few artists would tackle until half a century later.Painting her pleasure situates the work of Valadon, Charmy and Vassilieff within and against modernism, drawing parallels with later feminist artists and philosophers. Unravelling the complexities of early twentieth-century gender regimes and persistent cultural stereotypes, it provides an illuminating history of women, sexuality and the body.

DKK 241.00
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As You Like it - Robert Shaughnessy - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

As You Like it - Robert Shaughnessy - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been richly imagined as a space of dreams. The study retrieves the untold stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Juliet Stevenson, the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play, ranging from Paul Czinner's 1936 film to Kenneth Branagh's seventy years later.

DKK 273.00
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As You Like it - Robert Shaughnessy - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

As You Like it - Robert Shaughnessy - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

As you like it examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been imagined as a space of dreams. Beginning with the situation of the play in the context of early modern rehearsal and theatre practice, the book's seven chapters successively examine the rich interplay between performance histories, changing relations with the natural world, and gender politics. Drawing upon extensive original archival research, the study retrieves the backstage stories of stage productions in Britain, France and Germany, which include Royal Shakespeare Company productions starring Vanessa Redgrave (1961), Eileen Atkins (1973) and Juliet Stevenson (1985), the ground-breaking all-male productions at the National Theatre in 1967 and by Cheek by Jowl in 1992, and the versions directed by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1934, and by Peter Stein in Berlin in 1977. It also addresses the four major screen versions of the play: Paul Czinner's 1936 film, starring Elisabeth Bergner and Laurence Olivier; the 1978 BBC/Time-Life Television Shakespeare version; Christine Edzard's 1992 film set in contemporary London, and Kenneth Branagh's orientalised fantasy version of 2006. The final chapter offers a personal account of a performance of As You Like It witnessed at Shakespeare's Globe at the end of the summer of 2015: more than an open-air encounter with a play in a setting contrived to re-imagine its place and moment of origin, it provides the book's final word on a performance history that is stranger and more eventful than it seems. The book will be of interest to scholars, teachers, students and lovers of Shakespeare, and to theatre-goers and theatre-makers.

DKK 804.00
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