Clash of the Classics. L’Antiquité dans le cinéma contemporain
Extraits
Non classé
Migrant Memories
Migrant Memories provides an innovative perspective on the power of cultural memory and the influence of cinema on the Italian diaspora in Britain. Based on extensive interviews with Southern Italian migrants and their children, this study offers a fresh understanding of the migrants' journey from Italy to Britain since the early 1950s. The volume examines how the experience of contemporary Italian identity has been mediated through film, photography and popular culture through the generations. Beginning with an analysis of the films of Frank Capra and Anthony Minghella, the book goes on to address the popular melodramas of Raffaello Matarazzo and ultimately argues that cinema, and the memory of it, had a significant influence on the identity formation of first-generation Italians in Britain. Coupled with this analysis of cinema's relationship to migration, the cultural memory of the Italian diaspora is explored through traditions of education, religion, marriage and cuisine. The volume highlights the complexities of cultural history and migration at a time when debates about immigration in Britain have become politically and culturally urgent.
10/2013
Monographies
Chu Teh-Chun. In Nebula, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014) est un acteur majeur de la peinture gestuelle abstraite. Né en Chine au sein d'une famille d'amateurs d'art, il est formé à l'Académie des beaux-arts mais subit la guerre sino-japonaise, des tragédies familiales, la disparition quasi totale de ses oeuvres de jeunesse puis l'exil - en 1949 vers Taïwan et en 1955 vers Paris, où il s'installe enfin. C'est dans ce cadre apaisé que son abstraction orageuse voit le jour. Excluant toute géométrie patente, celle-ci est constituée de nébuleuses et autres maelströms polychromes, modelés par de puissants effets de clair-obscur. Atmosphérique et hors échelle, chaque tableau est une matrice où notre vision se projette et s'abîme, nous faisant perdre tout repère spatial ou sémantique. Nourri de peinture tant classique que moderne, tant asiatique qu'occidentale, Chu formule la sensation mnésique du paysage, l'essence dynamique du geste et le surgissement de la lumière. La mise en perspective historique, au gré de parallèles, analogies et autres résonances, nous invite à cerner la singularité d'un régime abstrait sous-tendu par la logique organique du vivant, les formes et les forces de la nature, leurs phénomènes naturels, leur fluidité éruptive et leurs révolutions cosmogoniques. Car Chu s'est longtemps trouvé quelque peu en marge de son époque, en raison peut-être d'une personnalité réservée et d'un rejet de principe de toute stratégie commerciale. L'objet de cette monographie est donc, à l'aune du recul historique et du succès actuel de l'oeuvre, de qualifier certains de ses enjeux esthétiques et d'aider à dissiper quelques malentendus qui ont pu entourer sa réception. Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014) is a major figure in the history of gestural abstract painting. Born in China into a family of art lovers, he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. Then came the Second Sino-Japanese war, family tragedy, the loss of nearly all his early work, and finally, exile-to Taiwan in 1949, then, in 1955, to Paris, where he settled. This peaceful home witnessed the emergence of his tortured abstraction, devoid of obvious geometry, in which polychrome nebulae and maelstroms clash with violent chiaroscuro effects. Atmospheric, impossible to scale, each painting is an arena into which vision is projected and submerged amid a loss of spatial and semantic bearings. Steeped in painting both classical and modern, Asian and Western, Chu's art recreates the memory of a landscape, the dynamic essence of gesture, and the brilliance of light. This study, by placing his work in its context, using parallels, analogies, and other resonances, focuses on the singularity of his approach to abstraction, underpinned by the organic logic of the living world, by natural phenomena, forms, forces, and by their eruptive fluidity and cosmogonic revolutions. For many years, Chu remained a somewhat marginal figure, perhaps because of his reserved personality and his principled rejection of commercial strategies. Making the most of historical perspective, and in light of the artist's current recognition, this monograph sets out to define some of the aesthetic themes shaping his work and to help dispel some of the misunderstandings that have surrounded its reception.
04/2024
Histoire antique
De la cacophonie à la musique. La perception du son dans les sociétés antiques
Les hommes et les femmes de l'Antiquité entendaient-ils comme nous ? Etaient-ils sensibles à certaines sonorités plutôt qu'à d'autres ? Ces simples questions nous rappellent que les sons et leurs interprétations font l'objet de constructions culturelles. Cacophonie et musique, bruit et silence sont au coeur d'un ouvrage qui se propose, pour l'Orient, l'Egypte, les mondes grecs et romains antiques, d'explorer les manières dont les perceptions acoustiques étaient alors nommées, ressenties, construites et interprétées. Les hommes et les femmes de l'Antiquité entendaient-ils comme nous ? Etaient-ils sensibles à certaines sonorités plutôt qu'à d'autres ? Ces simples questions nous rappellent que les sons et leurs interprétations sont inscrits dans des constructions culturelles, à tel point que la définition même de la cacophonie et de la musique, du bruit et du silence, change en fonction des époques et des contextes. L'historicité de ces notions est au coeur de l'ouvrage qui se propose, pour l'Egypte, l'Orient, les mondes grecs et romains antiques, de décrypter les perceptions acoustiques des Anciens en cherchant à comprendre comment les sons, ou leur absence, deviennent signifiants. Derrière l'ampleur de l'arc chronologique se trouve un objet commun, l'étude du vocabulaire et des expressions qui relèvent du champ sémantique du son. Le lexique est ici analysé dans une démarche historique nourrie par les problématiques développées par l'anthropologie du sonore. Tout au long des diverses contributions de ce volume, le lecteur est invité à se mettre à l'écoute des mots des Anciens. Cette approche au plus près des discours antiques a le mérite de nous révéler toute la complexité des valeurs sociales, politiques et religieuses dont les sons sont porteurs. --- Did the men and women of antiquity hear as we do ? Which sonorities were particularly significant to them ? Those simple questions remind us that the sounds as well as their possible interpretations belong to cultural constructions, so that the definitions of cacophony and music, of noise and silence, vary with times and from one context to another. The historicity of such usual notions is at the heart of the book, which sets out, for the ancient Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds, to explore the ways in which the sounds or their absence become meaningful. Behind the breadth of the chronological arc lies a common object, the study of terms and expressions related to sounds. The book provides an analysis of this corpus in a historical approach nourished by anthropology of sound. All the papers collected here invite the reader to listen carefully to ancient words and, by focusing on ancient discourses, reveal all the complexity of social, political and religious values carried by sounds in particular settings.
11/2022
Monographies
Upper Crust : Homemade Bread the French Way. Recipes and techniques
An introduction to the French art of baking bread-including ingredient selection, levain cultivation, and bread-making techniques-with more than one hundred illustrated recipes. The humble baguette is the quintessential staple of French cuisine, but the country has a vast and diverse bread-baking tradition. With an introduction to the history of French bread, guidelines to help the home baker select the right ingredients - grain and flour varieties, water, salt, and levain-this book details the step-by-step techniques and fundamentals of bread making : from feeding the levain, kneading and preparing the dough, and baking, to more than 100 recipes. Eighteen expert bakers and pastry chefs share the sweet and savory recipes that have forged the French bakery's enviable reputation-from rounds of rustic pain de campagne or loaves of olive and oregano bread to regional favorites like fougasse or the Basque taloas tortillas. A new generation of bakers has expanded the classic French repertoire to include original creations-such as charcoal-sesame baguettes ; matcha swirl bread ; buckwheat and seaweed rolls ; and fig, hazelnut, and honey rye bread. In their French style, they also reinterpret heritage breads from across the world-including pita, focaccia, bagels, cheesy Georgian khachapuri, Swedish crispbread, and Indian chapati. Additional bread-based recipes include "surprise bread" finger sandwiches, croque monsieur, onion soup with cheese croutons, and desserts such as French toast and kouign-amann. For each recipe, pictograms indicate the level of difficulty, time and material required, and whether a recipe is gluten-free. This is the ultimate reference book for baking homemade bread the French way.
11/2021
Cinéma
50 ans de cinéma dans le Val d'Oise
Depuis la création du Département en 1968, le Val d'Oise a accueilli près de 1 200 tournages dont plus d'un tiers dans la dernière décennie, qui marque une nette accélération. Eglises, châteaux, usines, écoles, aéroport, rivières et plages, etc. Les équipes techniques des films ont à leur disposition un formidable magasin de décors qu'elles transfigurent à leur guise selon les besoins des scénarios. En retour, le 7e art enregistre les mutations du territoire dans les représentations qu'il en donne, contribuant de manière décisive à la définition de son identité. A travers une centaine d'oeuvres relevant de tous les gentes - films populaires à grand succès ou films d'auteur plus confidentiels, comédies sentimentales, policiers ou drames historiques, etc. -, ce livre en forme d'éphéméride dresse un panorama de 50 ans de cinéma. Il permet de saisir les mutations techniques de cette industrie culturelle - de l'apparition des vidéocassettes VHS, qui bouleversent la réception des films au début des années 1980, au remplacement de la pellicule par le numérique, qui autorise des effets spéciaux de plus en plus convaincants. Il aide à mesurer les permanences et les évolutions de la société française : flic ou voyou, le héros solitaire à la Delon ou à la Belmondo s'estompe en même temps que les spectateurs affirment leur prédilection pour le genre comique ; la lente émergence de femmes réalisatrices accompagne la montée de nouveaux sujets - le handicap, la maladie ; la libération des moeurs va de pair avec la persistance des stéréotypes amoureux.
05/2019
Religion jeunesse
The beautiful dolls of Julia are getting married. Numéro 22
"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.
10/2018
Religion jeunesse
The beautiful dolls of Julia are celebrating the assumption of the blessed virgin Mary. Numéro 15
"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.
05/2019
Monographies
Arabian Leopard. Treasures of Alula
A celebration of a magnificent creature : the Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr). This subspecies has distinct features that are the result of thousands of years of evolution, making it perfectly suited to the deserts and mountains of Arabia. An essay by wildlife conservationist Andrew Spalton charts the animal's epic journey from Africa to Arabia over the course of half a million years, highlighting its history and its current, critically endangered status. Imagery of the Arabian leopard as a symbol of strength, freedom and fearlessness has been found in ancient rock art, mosaics and paintings over the centuries, cementing its position as a revered and respected animal in Saudi Arabia and the world. The Royal Commission for AlUla has been focusing on wildlife conservation to protect this subspecies through the creation of the Arabian Leopard Fund. Key to these efforts is raising awareness about these beautiful cats, to galvanize local and international support for their protection. To this end, two editions of the books are available-a Classic and an Ultimate-featuring original artworks and photographs that capture the enduring spirit of the Arabian leopard.
01/2022
Histoire de la danse
Danse contemporaine
Au début des années 1980, des chorégraphes inconnus comme Gallotta, Chopinot, Preljocaj ou Decouflé inventent une danse jamais vue. Cette nouvelle scène, désireuse de renverser les valeurs en cours, possède toutefois nombre de références : Béjart et Merce Cunningham, mais aussi Alvin Nikolais, Pina Bausch. Depuis, cette lame de fond n'a cessé de s'amplifier et de se métamorphoser. Dans les années 1990, de nouveaux interprètes (Bel, Rizzo, Charmatz...) remettent en cause cette " belle danse " et la " danse conceptuelle " va balayer l'optimisme des années 1980. Mais la danse contemporaine n'a pas perdu son appétit d'expériences et de découvertes : dans les années 2000, elle s'ouvre au multimédia, au collage des arts et l'éclectisme des propositions explose plus que jamais.
10/2022
Histoire de la danse
Danse contemporaine
- 20 chorégraphes phares - Renouer les fils avec le passé - Changer sa façon de voir - La danse contemporaine, quel intérêt ? - La danse contemporaine, c'est quoi ? - Retenir quelques dates repères - Les Maîtres à danser - Connaître les mots clés - Commen
11/2021
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Divers
Dirty Panties (English Edition)
Roxane is a young Parisian whose Bohemian life seems stuck in an endless loop of idle afternoons and wine-soaked nights with her roommate. Strapped for cash and novelty, she starts selling her used underwear online. Dirty Panties chronicles her first steps in this marketplace, from the creation of her online persona to the real-life rendezvous with shady customers. This new business soon impacts Roxane's daily life and the people around her. The world she has just stepped into might be much more bizarre than what she expected. Roxane's journey exploring her own appetite for transgression tackles such contemporary themes as sex work, consent and economic domination. How far will she go and where will this end ? Maybelline Skvortzoff's drawing is detailed and vivid and the story is in turn hilarious, awkward, touching and dark. Much like Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character in her TV series Fleabag, Roxane is at the same time completely clueless and determined to make it on her own in this world where everything can be bought and sold. Roxane vend ses culottes -- the original edition of Dirty Panties -- won the 2023 Artemisia award for best humor comic and has been shortlisted for many awards including the official selection of the 2023 Angouleme Festival.
01/2024
Coloriage, gommettes et autoco
Disney Classics. Aristochats
Retrouve tous les personnages des plus grands classiques de Disney dans ce super livre de coloriage ! Rencontre les personnages les plus attachants et indémodables de Disney : 32 pages de coloriages avec modèles couleurs des plus grands classiques de Disney.
02/2021
Histoire de la médecine
La Médecine sacerdotale dans l'antiquité grecque
La Médecine sacerdotale dans l'antiquité grecque / Dr Vercoutre Date de l'édition originale : 1886 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.
02/2021
Histoire internationale
One Artist on Five Continents
Elisabet Delbrück (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. She was at first forbidden to leave and then chose to remain in Wellington. Her thirty years in Mahina Bay on Wellington harbour had a profound effect on all who knew her. This study aims to discover why she was so remarkable. It explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist. She turned this into a profession, teaching and exhibiting on five continents in the 1920s and 1930s. She always travelled alone, observing the customs and beliefs of the people she met. In Australia and New Zealand in 1938 and 1939 she was wrongly suspected of spreading Nazi propaganda. Her story is also the story of a heroic group of Wellingtonians who helped her in the 1940s and valued her friendship till her death.
12/2011
Sciences politiques
Chroniques électorales. Tome 2, La cinquième république du général de Gaulle
Here, at last collected in three volumes, are the classic analyses of each of the French postwar elections and referenda which François Goguel had published in various journals and symposia. The three volumes - Volume I deals with the Fourth Republic, Volume II with the Fifth from 1958 to 1969 and Volume III with the Fifth after de Gaulle - are an indispensable référence tool, the only work which provides full data on elections and voting behavior in postwar France. But François Goguel does not only present data : in his double role as political scientist and practitioner, he considers the effects of voting Systems, political cleavages, and voting behavior factors, that is, the contradiction between the effects of immediate political conditions and political culture for each élection and its relation to the other élections. Thus through and beyond elections, François Goguel présents a genuine political history of France under the Fourth and the Fifth Republics.
01/1983
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
Histoire ancienne
Chauds latins. Le sexe dans l'Antiquité romaine
Turpitudes, lupanars, fresques érotiques, phallus en érection : la société antique était-elle en perpétuelle frénésie sexuelle ? Pas du tout : en réalité, les Romains étaient plutôt pudiques. Hostiles aux excès de toute nature, ils plaçaient la vertu civique et familiale au-dessus de voluptés charnelles. En matière de sexe, leurs idées, leurs désirs ou leurs interdits étaient toutefois bien éloignés de ceux d'aujourd'hui. Ils reflétaient une société fortement hiérarchisée, par ailleurs dominée par une conception phallocratique des rapports intimes. Le rôle et le plaisir du citoyen mâle et dominant primaient, avec des partenaires des deux sexes (les notions "homo" et "hétéro" n'ayant pas cours à l'époque). Mariage, contraception, séduction, désirs, pratiques, ébats : thème par thème, l'ouvrage raconte, explique et illustre ce que fut la vie sexuelle des Romains.
01/2015
Histoire antique
Les Grecques. Destins de femmes dans l'Antiquité
Des vies en clair-obscur, ainsi pourrait-on résumer le destin des femmes de l'Antiquité grecque. Hydna la plongeuse, Euthymia la magistrate, Phanostratè la pédiatre, Corinne la poétesse ou Nikarétè la vendeuse de rubans : ces femmes et leurs consoeurs participèrent chacune à leur manière à l'histoire des cités. Les sources anciennes mettent en lumière le rôle des femmes dans des domaines aussi variés que la transmission de la citoyenneté, les transactions financières, le service des dieux, la pratique médicale, l'intendance des gymnases, la vente au détail, l'ascèse philosophique ou le sabotage de navires. Des pans entiers de leur vie ont été éclairés par les recherches récentes portant sur la petite enfance, le sport, le monde du travail, les honneurs publics, l'eugénisme ou le droit de la famille. Dix-huit récits de vie révèlent des destinées façonnées malgré l'ombre omniprésente des structures patriarcales. Des actrices, longtemps cantonnées au second plan, à qui cet ouvrage rend hommage.
04/2023
Coréen
Apprendre le coréen avec les drama. Progressez en coréen grâce à vos drama préférés
Squid game, Sky castle, Crash landing on you, Descendants of the sun... Retrouvez vos héros et héroïnes de drama et de films préférés dans cette méthode de coréen pas comme les autres ! Au fil des 10 chapitres thématiques du livre, vous réviserez les conjugaisons et vous mettrez à table avec Park Sae-royi d'Itaewon Class, vous apprendrez les expressions honorifiques au sein de la famille Soonyang (Reborn Rich), et vous vous familiariserez avec la structure des phrases coréennes avec Yoo Si Jin et Kang Mo Yeon (Descendants of the Sun). En plus des points théoriques, des exercices ludiques, des quiz et des pistes audio vous permettront de mettre en pratique ce que vous avez appris et de travailler la prononciation. Une bonne façon de progresser tout en s'amusant !
04/2023
Non classé
Foreign Devils
Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Béla Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by virtue of its hegemonic, reactionary, and exclusionary modes of representation, otherness is excluded from or only obliquely alluded to in classical Hollywood cinema. This book contends that Hollywood uses European émigré actors to speak of the experience of exile and the often-futile exilic attempts at integration into the host nation. This original, cross-disciplinary study incorporates a number of research interests in film studies – specifically Hollywood cinema, exile and émigré filmmakers, the Golden Age of the studio system, the Universal Horror cycle, and Poverty Row filmmaking. Foreign Devils combines the close reading of key texts with a theoretical framework that encompasses body theory and theories of space and nation with historical accounts of immigration to the United States and American concepts of nationhood through the symbolism of blood and death studies. Film studies students and academics, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as scholars in other disciplines, and anyone with an interest in Hollywood cinema, Central European culture in the 1930s-1950s, and European emigration to the United States will benefit from reading this book. Foreign Devils is also a valuable resource for courses in Hollywood filmmaking, émigré film, exile, Central European culture, nationalism studies, and Jewish studies.
01/2013
Jeux
Dungeon Crawl Classics 13: Dans les glaces du temps
Une aventure de niveau 1 par Michael Curtis.
04/2022
Histoire ancienne
The Present of Antiquity. Reception, Recovery, Reinvention of the Ancient World in Current Popular Culture, Edition français-anglais-espagnol
Le présent livre se concentre sur l'étude de l'Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine dans une perspective large dans laquelle les genres les plus étudiés, tels que les films, les bandes dessinées et les romans historiques, et d'autres moins connus, tels que les romans fantastiques et de science-fiction, les jeux de guerre et les jeux de rôle, ont leur place. Toutes les études ont été regroupées selon le genre en trois sections principales suivies d'une conclusion ("Usages modernes de l'Antiquité : quelques réflexions en guise de conclusion"). Les deux premières sections du livre traitent de "l'Antiquité au cinéma et à la télévision" (Sánchez Casado, Antela-Bernardez, Lillo Redonet Martinez Maza) et de "l'Antiquité dans la littérature et les Comics" (Romero Recio, Rosillo-Lopez, Alvarez Ossorio, Ferrer Albelda, Gordillo Hervas). La troisième partie, intitulée "Jouer, vivre et expérimenter l'Antiquité" , couvre un des genre les moins étudiés qui a récemment attiré l'attention de la communauté scientifique universitaire dont l'une des caractéristiques principales est de proposer l'expérience dans le monde antique (Fletcher, García Carbo, Secci Perez Rubio, Gómez Valero). Ce livre souligne que la reconstruction et la transmission du passé classique ne se trouve plus dans les manuels scolaires et les universités, mais est atteint en allant au cinéma ou en regardant un film à la télévision, en jouant sur les ordinateurs et les tablettes et en marchant sur les champs de bataille modernes avec des légionnaires contemporains.
11/2019
Anglais apprentissage
A multitude of Sins. Richard Ford
A sequel to Rock Springs and Women with Men, the collection of short stories entitled A Multitude of Sins was published in 2001 and immediately achieved worldwide recognition. If this series of ten short stories seems to feature adultery, it would be a major mistake to believe that the stories can be reduced to what is actually a side issue or a pretext to something else, sometimes of much greater importance. As often with great writers, Richard Ford tackles several other topics along with the sin of unfaithfulness which is a base camp from which to go further up into the knowledge of human deficiency, lack and want. Pondering these sins, Richard Ford lays them all bare while often unveiling the issue of the story right from the beginning, instead of cautiously preserving it as a last chance literary trick to pull it off at the fast moment. Showing insight through observation, his writing is deceptive in as much as it seems natural and easygoing when it requires close analysis and several successive readings to yield up its literary and humane secrets. The comparison some critics have made to Chekhov is not overblown and Agregation students, certainly among the most perceptive readers in the world, should naturally enjoy both reading and studying A Multitude of Sins, pleasure and scholarship being complementary, not antagonistic. The exclusive interview of Richard Ford at the end of the book will certainly be appreciated by Agregation students, who will thus be able to finish off their knowledge of Ford's works.
11/2007
Psychologie, psychanalyse
Le trauma dans les conflits contemporains
Le XXe siècle restera comme le plus meurtrier de l'histoire de l'humanité. Par-delà le nombre de morts et les folies idéologiques, la figure de la victime s'est révélée progressivement de nature plurielle, empruntant des voies inattendues. Les visages de la victime renvoient à des formes nombreuses de violences. Cet ouvrage porte sur l'une d'entre elles : le trauma. L'approche pluridisciplinaire empruntée se saisit de l'émergence de la notion de trauma, et particulièrement de celle de trauma collectif qu'elle interroge, à la fois sous l'angle psychanalytique et historique. Elle discute de ses usages au sein de différentes théories, notamment celle du peacebuilding mais en montre également l'usage concret au sein de conflits contemporains. Inscrit dans la collection "Enjeux de société et prospective" , ce volume est le résultat d'une collaboration universitaire franco-canadienne.
11/2013
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD HISTORY. An introduction
In modern industrial society, the tic between science and technology seems clear, even inevitable. But historically, as James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn remind us, the connection was far less apparent. For much of human history, technology depended more on the innovation of skilled artisans than it did on the speculation of scientists. Technology as "applied science," the authors argue, emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would lead directly to new or improved technologies. In Science and Technology in World History, McClellan and Dorn offer an introduction to this changing relationship.
McClellan and Dorn review the historical record beginning with the thinking and tool making of prehistoric humans. Neolithic people, for example, developed metallurgy of a sort, using naturally occurring raw copper, and kept systematic records of the moon's phases. Neolithic craftsmen possessed practical knowledge of the behavior of clay, fire, and other elements of their environment, but though they may have had explanations for the phenomena of their crafts, they toiled without any systematic science of materials or the self-conscious application of theory to practice.
Without neglecting important figures of Western science such as Newton and Einstein, the authors demonstrate the great achievements of non-Western cultures. They remind us that scientific traditions took root in China, India, and Central and South America, as well as in a series of Near Eastern empires, during late antiquity and the Middle Ages, including the vast region that formed the Islamic conquest. From this comparative perspective, the authors explore the emergence of Europe as a scientific and technological power. Continuing their narrative through the Manhattan Project, NASA, and modern medical research, the authors weave the converging histories of science and technology into an integrated, perceptive, and highly readable narrative.
"Professors McClellan and Dorn have written a survey that does not present the historical development of science simply as a Western phenomenon but as the result of wide-ranging human curiosity about nature and attempts to harness its powers in order to serve human needs. This is an impressive amount of material to organize in a single textbook."
- Paula Findlen, Stanford University
01/1999
Histoire de l'art
Paris Moderne, 1914-1945. Art - Design - Architecture - Photography - Literature - Cinema - Fashion
Whether at peace or at war, Paris during the first half of the twentieth century pulsated with frenzied energy. Creatives from across Europe flocked to the French capital where they had free rein to experiment with innovative forms of expression. Inspired by the challenge made possible through technological advances and market expectations, members from every artistic discipline-art, design, architecture, photography, fashion, and cinema-forged the new face of this resolutely modern city. A kaleidoscopic portrait of this exhilarating artistic surge is documented here in dictionary form, through biographical profiles of nearly one hundred leading creators, including Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, Tamara de Lempicka, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Man Ray, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Helena Rubinstein, and Gertrude Stein. The richly illustrated volume is completed with a photographic journal of Paris today by Antonio Martinelli, retracing the incredible architectural and urban landscape that still bears the hallmarks of this wildly prodigious period. J-L. C. , G. M. J.
09/2023
Histoire de la médecine
Le somnambulisme dans l'antiquité et de nos jours
Le somnambulisme dans l'antiquité et de nos jours / par Mme Courboulay, somnambule Date de l'édition originale : 1876 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.
03/2021
Histoire ancienne
La société et le sacre dans l'Antiquité tardive
Dans ce livre, Peter Brown montre magistralement ce qu'a été la fonction du saint homme, succédant à celle du " patron ", entre le IVe et le VIIIe siècle en Orient, et comment elle s'oppose symétriquement au rôle des reliques en Occident, éclairant d'un jour nouveau le schisme entre orthodoxes et catholiques ; comment la querelle des icônes a mis sur la sellette ce même saint homme auquel l'icône était attachée, plutôt que posé la question de la légitimité de l'image ; comment la désintrication du sacré et du profane au XIIe siècle, dont nous sommes encore héritiers, s'est faite sur le fond d'une société qui s'ouvrait et cessait de vivre en petites unités. Peter Brown ne réduit pas le sacré à une situation sociale. Bien mieux, il cherche à comprendre quelle fonction cette catégorie a remplie dans la société et comment s'y est assuré son succès.
10/2002
