Chanteuse In The City

Author : Conway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437970362

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Chanteuse in the City by Conway Pdf

Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the Belle Epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life, and the rough neighborhoods of Paris. The realist singer signaled the emergence of new cultural roles for women as well as shifts in the nature of popular entertainment. This book provides a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Frehel, and Damia. Above all, it offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the cafe-concert. Illustrations.

Author : Kelley Conway
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520244078

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Chanteuse in the City by Kelley Conway Pdf

A study of French film in the inter-war years focusing on women, particularly women singers, and the role they played in shaping a national, populist, Paris-oriented French cinema.

Author : Tim Bergfelder,Sue Harris,Sarah Street
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053569801

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Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination by Tim Bergfelder,Sue Harris,Sarah Street Pdf

Summary: "Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers ʼ drawings, film stills and archival documents, the book offers a new insight into the development and significance of trans-national artistic collaboration during this period. European cinema from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is famous for its attention to detail in terms of set design and visual effect. Focusing on developments in Britain, France, and Germany, Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema provides a comprehensive analysis of the practices, styles, and function of cinematic production design during this period, and its influence on subsequent filmmaking patterns."--Publisher description.

Author : Mae G. Henderson,Charlene B. Regester
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476665818

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The Josephine Baker Critical Reader by Mae G. Henderson,Charlene B. Regester Pdf

Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death. This new collection of essays interprets Baker's life in the context of modernism, feminism, race, gender and sexuality. The contributors focus on various aspects of her life and career, including her performances and public reception, civil rights efforts, the architecture of her unbuilt house, and her modern-day "afterlife."

Author : Steven Ungar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838719357

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Cléo de 5 a 7 by Steven Ungar Pdf

Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early-Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du cinéma group of critics-turned- film-makers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic contexts, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and as a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo's health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cléo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment. Steven Ungar's foreword to this new edition looks back upon Varda's film-making career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave.

Author : Victoria Harriet Duckett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Motion pictures and transnationalism
ISBN : 9780520382114

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Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema by Victoria Harriet Duckett Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the forefront of the entertainment industries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were singular actors: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, and Mistinguett. Talented and formidable women with global ambitions, these performers forged connections with audiences across the world while pioneering the use of film and theatrics to gain international renown. Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema traces how these women emerged from the Parisian periphery to become world-famous stars. Building upon extensive archival research in France, England, and the United States, Victoria Duckett argues that, through intrepid business prowess and the use of early multimedia to cultivate their celebrity image, these three artists strengthened ties between countries, continents, and cultures during pivotal years of change.

Author : Homer B. Pettey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748691111

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International Noir by Homer B. Pettey Pdf

Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book explores the influence of noir on international cinematic traditions and challenges prevailing film scholarship. It includes extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.

Author : James Walters,Tom Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349924554

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Film Moments by James Walters,Tom Brown Pdf

Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it is the brief, temporary and transitory that combines to create the whole. Our memories of films are composed of the moments we deem to be crucial: touchstones for our understanding and appreciation. Moments matter. The 38 specially commissioned essays in Film Moments examine a wide selection of key scenes across a broad spectrum of national cinemas, historical periods and genres, featuring films by renowned auteurs including Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli and important contemporary directors such as Pedro Costa, Zhang Ke Jia and Quentin Tarantino, addressing films including City Lights, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Night of the Hunter, Wild Strawberries, 8 1?2, Bonnie and Clyde, Star Wars, Conte d'été, United 93 and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Film Moments provides both an enlightening introduction for students to the diversity of approaches and concerns in the study of film, and a dynamic and vibrant account of key film sequences for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of cinema.

Author : Michael Temple,Michael Witt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349929092

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The French Cinema Book by Michael Temple,Michael Witt Pdf

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.

Author : Jeremy Barham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429997013

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The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era by Jeremy Barham Pdf

In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films (the late 1920s to the 1940s). Moving beyond the traditional focus on Hollywood, this Companion considers the vast range of cinema and music created in often-overlooked regions throughout the rest of the world, providing crucial global context to film music history. An extensive editorial Introduction and 50 chapters from an array of international experts connect the music and sound of these films to regional and transnational issues—culturally, historically, and aesthetically—across five parts: Western Europe and Scandinavia Central and Eastern Europe North Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and Australasia Latin America Soviet Russia Filling a major gap in the literature, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era offers an essential reference for scholars of music, film studies, and cultural history.

Author : Cristina Magaldi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199744770

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Music and Cosmopolitanism by Cristina Magaldi Pdf

In Music and Cosmopolitanism, Cristina Magaldi examines music making in a past globalized world. This volume focuses on one city, Rio de Janeiro, and how it became part of a larger world through music and performance. Magaldi describes a process of creating connections beyond national borders, one that is familiar to contemporary city residents, but which was already dominant at the turn of the 20th century, as new technological developments led to alternative ways of making and experiencing music.

Author : David A. Pettersen
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783168514

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Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France by David A. Pettersen Pdf

Gangsters, aviators, hard-boiled detectives, gunslingers, jazz and images of the American metropolis were all an inextricable part of the cultural landscape of interwar France. While the French 1930s have long been understood as profoundly anti-American, this book shows how a young, up-and-coming generation of 1930s French writers and filmmakers approached American culture with admiration as well as criticism. For some, the imaginary America that circulated through Hollywood films, newspaper reports, radio programming and translated fiction represented the society of the future, while for others it embodied a dire threat to French identity. This book brings an innovative transatlantic perspective to 1930s French culture, focusing on several of the most famous figures from the 1930s – including Marcel Carné, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Julien Duvivier, André Malraux, Jean Renoir and Jean-Paul Sartre – to track the ways in which they sought to reinterpret the political and social dimensions of modernism for mass audiences via an imaginary America.

Author : Dottie Dodgion,Wayne Enstice
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252052477

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The Lady Swings by Dottie Dodgion,Wayne Enstice Pdf

Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a “man’s instrument” in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s. Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing. A Variety Best Music Book of 2021

Author : Hannah Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190636005

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French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema by Hannah Lewis Pdf

The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that the debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding a range of French musical styles and genres shaped audiovisual cinematic experiments during the transition to sound. Lewis' book focuses on many of the most prominent directors and screenwriters of the period, from Luis Buñuel to Jean Vigo, as well as experiments found in lesser-known films. Additionally, Lewis examines how early sound film portrayed the diverse soundscape of early 1930s France, as filmmakers drew from the music hall, popular chanson, modernist composition, opera and operetta, and explored the importance of musical machines to depict and to shape French audiovisual culture. In this light, the author discusses the contributions of well-known composers for film alongside more popular music hall styles, all of which had a voice within the heterogeneous soundtrack of French sound cinema. By delving into this fascinating developmental period of French cinematic history, Lewis encourages readers to challenge commonly-held assumptions about how genres, media, and artistic forms relate to one another, and how these relationships are renegotiated during moments of technological change.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1826 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Singer-songwriters by Wikipedia contributors Pdf