Violette Nozière

Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520948730

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Violette Noziere by Sarah Maza Pdf

On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.

Author : Natalya Lusty
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754653366

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Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Natalya Lusty Pdf

Combining historical and cultural methods of analysis with sophisticated theoretical discussions, Natalya Lusty explores how women artists and intellectuals responded to the appropriation of 'the feminine' in Surrealism and psychoanalysis. Reading work by

Author : Sarah Maza,Sarah C. Maza
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520272729

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Violette Nozière by Sarah Maza,Sarah C. Maza Pdf

"Sarah Maza has written a vivid, gripping and clear-eyed account of the celebrated Violette Nozière case, which captivated French society in the 1930s. A bold and imaginative story, Violette Nozière opens an unexpected and revealing window onto interwar Parisian life." — Colin Jones, author of Paris: Biography of a City “Sarah Maza's absorbing new book on Violette Nozière--flapper, fantasist, and perpetrator of one of the most sordid and sensational French homicides of the 1930s—is a scholarly 'true crime' tale of the most intelligent sort. Why might a seemingly respectable little mademoiselle from a 'nice' bourgeois family want to poison her maman et papa at the breakfast table? Alongside her riveting account of the crime and its aftermath, Maza investigates the various pathologies—familial, social, economic, cultural, psychosexual—that may have figured in the mayhem. (At her trial Nozière claimed, among other things, that her father had sexually abused her for years.) The result is both a fascinating case history—Greek tragedy rewritten as seedy policier—and a chilling glimpse into the less salubrious aspects of French lower middle-class life between the wars.” — Terry Castle, author of The Professor "One of those rare and sophisticated works that tells a gripping story while evoking a complex historical period. There exist very few cultural histories of the interwar years."—Carolyn Dean, author of Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust “Sarah Maza's book tells an arresting story that deftly combines conventional social history with a subtle analysis of gender and culture. Using all the arts of the best storytellers, she is careful not to give too much away, and it is only with time and a remarkable conclusion that we realize that Violette Nozière is no ordinary tale.” — Ruth Harris, author of Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

Author : Sian Reynolds
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : France
ISBN : 9780415127363

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France Between the Wars by Sian Reynolds Pdf

France Between the Wars challenges a prevailing assumption that women had little influence or power in France during the interwar period. Siãan Reynolds shows how women in fact had both autonomy and authority within the political arena.

Author : Jonathan Paul Eburne
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0801446740

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Surrealism and the Art of Crime by Jonathan Paul Eburne Pdf

Corpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war, revolutionary violence, and mass killing, it was the tawdry reality of everyday crime that fascinated them. Jonathan P. Eburne shows us how this focus reveals the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the thought and artwork of the surrealists and establishes their movement as a useful platform for addressing the contemporary problem of violence, both individual and political. In a book strikingly illustrated with surrealist artworks and their sometimes gruesome source material, Eburne addresses key individual works by both better-known surrealist writers and artists (including André Breton, Louis Aragon, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí) and lesser-known figures (such as René Crevel, Simone Breton, Leonora Carrington, Benjamin Péret, and Jules Monnerot). For Eburne "the art of crime" denotes an array of cultural production including sensationalist journalism, detective mysteries, police blotters, crime scene photos, and documents of medical and legal opinion as well as the roman noir, in particular the first crime novel of the American Chester Himes. The surrealists collected and scrutinized such materials, using them as the inspiration for the outpouring of political tracts, pamphlets, and artworks through which they sought to expose the forms of violence perpetrated in the name of the state, its courts, and respectable bourgeois values. Concluding with the surrealists' quarrel with the existentialists and their bitter condemnation of France's anticolonial wars, Surrealism and the Art of Crime establishes surrealism as a vital element in the intellectual, political, and artistic history of the twentieth century.

Author : Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748692620

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Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze Pdf

Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and gender

Author : Lucy Fischer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400859955

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Shot/Countershot by Lucy Fischer Pdf

Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or "countershot," and Lucy Fischer argues persuasively for this view. In rich detail this book relates the idea of a counter-cinema to theories of intertextuality and locates it in the broad context of recent feminist film, literary, and art criticism. Fischer also employs an original critical model of the dialogue between women's cinema and film tradition in the very organization of the book. Each chapter discusses a theme or genre (such as the musical, the "double," the myth of womanhood, and the figure of the actress), counterposing two or more works--from the feminist and from the dominant cinema. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a women's film tradition that not only addresses but reworks and remakes the mainstream cinema. Fischer successfully combines two main strains of feminist criticism: the deconstructive critique of the dominant culture from a feminist standpoint and the study of a feminist counterculture. Examining films from Persona and The Lady from Shanghai to Girlfriends and Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness, the book offers fresh interpretations of individual works and can, incidentally, serve as an introduction to the field of feminist film criticism. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Darren Waldron,Nick Rees-Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501348938

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Isabelle Huppert by Darren Waldron,Nick Rees-Roberts Pdf

Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert's star persona and public profile through critical and theoretical analysis of her various screen roles-from her very early appearances alongside Romy Schneider in César et Rosalie (Sautet, 1972) and Gérard Depardieu in Les Valseuses (1974) to a number of celebrated collaborations with high-profile European auteurs such as Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke and Joseph Losey, and with more popular auteurs such as Claude Chabrol and François Ozon. Known for a cerebral internalization of characterization, a technical mastery of extreme emotions, and a singular brand of icy intellectualism, Huppert's performances continue to impress, stun and surprise audiences. By focusing on several theoretical questions that relate to image, identity, sexuality and place, this volume situates Huppert's star persona in the more practical creative contexts of performance, authorship, genre and collaboration. This volume contrasts complementary critical accounts of her stardom by working across the different periods and territories of her career.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015062147460

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Film Canadiana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520383067

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The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Pdf

In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights. In this beautifully written biography, based on newly discovered and previously overlooked material, we gain access for the first time to the full complexity of Grégoire's intellectual and political universe as well as the compelling nature of his persona. His life offers an extraordinary vantage from which to view large issues in European and world history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides provocative insights into many of the prevailing tensions, ideals, and paradoxes of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Grégoire's idea of "regeneration," that people could literally be made anew, Sepinwall argues that revolutionary universalism was more complicated than it appeared. Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2266007696

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Violette Nozière by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0520260708

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Violette Nozière by Sarah Maza Pdf

On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced “medication,” which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of “double parricide” became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.

Author : Aaron Freundschuh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503600973

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The Courtesan and the Gigolo by Aaron Freundschuh Pdf

The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death—the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a charismatic and handsome Egyptian migrant, the story became an international sensation. As the case descended into scandal and papers fanned the flames of anti-immigrant politics, the investigation became thoroughly enmeshed with the crisis-driven political climate of the French Third Republic and the rise of xenophobic right-wing movements. Aaron Freundschuh's account of the "Pranzini Affair" recreates not just the intricacies of the investigation and the raucous courtroom trial, but also the jockeying for status among rival players—reporters, police detectives, doctors, and magistrates—who all stood to gain professional advantage and prestige. Freundschuh deftly weaves together the sensational details of the case with the social and political undercurrents of the time, arguing that the racially charged portrayal of Pranzini reflects a mounting anxiety about the colonial "Other" within France's own borders. Pranzini's case provides a window into a transformational decade for the history of immigration, nationalism, and empire in France.

Author : René Magritte,Sarah Whitfield
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002391030

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Rene Magritte: Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-48 V. 2 by René Magritte,Sarah Whitfield Pdf

As a whole, the series (Volumes I-V) presents an authoritative survey of the artist's oeuvre, from 1916 to his death in 1967. The text provides a systematic survey of his oil paintings (I-III), objects (II-III), bronzes (III), gouaches, temperas, watercolours and papiers colles (IV). These volumes provide a lively and informed art-historical commentary with substantial extracts from Magritte's correspondance, given in both the original French and in English translation. Volume V completes the series that is widely recognised as an indispensible reference for Magritte scholars and admirers alike.

Author : Guy Austin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781526162687

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Claude Chabrol by Guy Austin Pdf

This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'.. Coincides with the recent renewal of interest in Chabrol, which has seen his back catalogue released in the UK on video.. Celebration of Chabrol's fiftieth film recently, Rien ne va plus prompted many festivals and retrospectives. Publication coincides with Chabrol's new film which is discussed in this study.. Writtten by one of the liveliest critics in French cinema - author of Contemporary French Cinema.