Wandering Women In French Film And Literature

Author : Mariah Devereux Herbeck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137339997

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Wandering Women in French Film and Literature by Mariah Devereux Herbeck Pdf

How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films.

Author : Mariah Devereux Herbeck
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349464643

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Wandering Women in French Film and Literature by Mariah Devereux Herbeck Pdf

How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films.

Author : Kelly Comfort,Marylaura Papalas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000482348

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New Directions in Flânerie by Kelly Comfort,Marylaura Papalas Pdf

This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of urban walking from 1800 to the present. Divided into three sections—geography, genius, and gender—the introduction establishes the origins of the flâneur and flâneuse in early foundational texts and explores later works that reimagine flânerie in terms of these same three themes. The volume’s contributors provide new and global perspectives on urban walking practices through their treatment of a variety of genres (literature, film, journalism, autobiography, epistolary correspondence, photography, fashion, music, digital media) and regions (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East). This volume theorizes well-known urban characters like the idler, lounger, dandy, badaud, promeneuse, shopper, collector, and detective and also proposes new iterations of the flâneur/flâneuse as fashion model, gaucho, cruiser, musician, vampire, postcolonial activist, video game avatar and gamer.

Author : Melissa Hardie,Meaghan Morris,Kane Race
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253068170

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The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies by Melissa Hardie,Meaghan Morris,Kane Race Pdf

The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the film, its makers, its promoters, and its audience. A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender. The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies engages with the figurative and actual place of sex work and feminized affective labor in our society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401206303

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Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film by Anonim Pdf

Stories of violence — such as the account in Genesis of Cain’s jealousy and murder of Abel — have been with us since the time of the earliest recorded texts. Undeniably, the scourge of violence fascinates, confounds, and saddens. What are its uses in literature — its appeal, forms, and consequences? Anchored by Alice Kaplan’s substantial contribution, the thirteen articles in this volume cover diverse epochs, lands, and motives. One scholar ponders whether accounts of Huguenot martyrdom in the sixteenth-century might suggest more pride than piety. Another assesses the real versus the true with respect to a rape scene in The Heptameron. Female violence in fairy tales by Madame d’Aulnoy points to gender politics and the fragility of female solidarity, while another article examines similar issues in the context of Ananda Devi’s works in present-day Mauritius. Other studies address the question of sadism in Flaubert, the unstable point of view of Emmanuel Carrère’s L’Adversaire, the ambivalence toward violence in Chamoiseau’s Texaco, the notions of “terror” and “tabula rasa” in the writings of Blanchot, the undoing of traditions of narrative continuity and authority in the 1998 film, À vendre, and consequences of the power differential in a repressive Haiti as depicted in the film Vers le Sud (2005). Paradoxes emerge in several studies of works where victims may become perpetrators, or vice versa.

Author : Sonora Jha,Alka Kurian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317210771

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New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature by Sonora Jha,Alka Kurian Pdf

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly complicated discourses across narrative forms – hashtag activism on Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on queer rights, state censorship of "India’s Daughter", and feminist film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Author : Sylvie Blum-Reid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137553546

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Traveling in French Cinema by Sylvie Blum-Reid Pdf

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 : Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača,E. Ann Kaplan,Patrice Petro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317408055

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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender by Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača,E. Ann Kaplan,Patrice Petro Pdf

Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. A special focus is on women directors in a global context that includes films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. The collection also offers a solid overview of feminist contributions to thinking on genre from the "chick flick" to the action or Western film, to film noir and the slasher. Readers will find contributions on a variety of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and essays addressing the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans* cinema, eco-cinema and the post-human. Finally, readers interested in the history of film will find essays addressing the methodological dimensions of feminist film history, essays on silent and studio era women in film, and histories of female filmmakers in a variety of non-Western contexts.

Author : Lauren Elkin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448191956

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Flaneuse by Lauren Elkin Pdf

*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay* Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street 'Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.' If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then what exactly is a flâneuse? In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book, Lauren Elkin defines her as ‘a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk’. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between the city and creativity through a journey that begins in New York and moves us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo and London, exploring along the way the paths taken by the flâneuses who have lived and walked in those cities. From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle, from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda, Flâneuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city and changes her life, one step at a time.

Author : Janis L. Pallister,Ruth A. Hottell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820476145

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French-speaking Women Documentarians by Janis L. Pallister,Ruth A. Hottell Pdf

French-Speaking Women Documentarians is a guide for teachers of French and others interested in selecting and researching the work of female French-speaking documentarians. Represented in this book are filmmakers from Canada, various African nations, the Antilles, Lebanon, Switzerland, Belgium, and several other countries, with emphasis on Agnès Varda of France - arguably the greatest female documentarian of all. The book includes information on each filmmaker, classified by country of origin, and lists and describes her works, giving factual information such as date, duration, credits, and synopses, and pointing out critical treatments, both in English and in French, of her most important films. Shorts, docudramas, and works of animation are also discussed, as they, too, reflect history and culture. This guide will lead to the viewing of films that shed understanding on the culture being portrayed and to a greater appreciation of the contribution of French-speaking women filmmakers to this important, if not always objective, film genre.

Author : Annabelle Dolidon
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3838301706

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Women Who Love Women in French Contemporary Literature and Film by Annabelle Dolidon Pdf

In this study, I analyze late twentieth- century French novels and movies that have, central to their narratives, love between women; and I bring to the surface the fresh standpoints that authors and filmmakers develop about changing and contested modes of relationality in modern France. More particularly, I demonstrate how the normative connotations of lesbian love, first impose oppressive and reductive representations of women who love women, and second, how these connotations can be displaced from within, and, once subverted, open up questions that pertain to other domains of human life than love, in particular to notions of temporality, community and relationality.

Author : Ellen E. Berry
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0472103008

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Curved Thought and Textual Wandering by Ellen E. Berry Pdf

This wide-ranging and provocative study traces Gertrude Stein's production of avant-garde texts that radically disrupted traditional notions of how fiction should be defined, valued, and read. The book combines feminist and postmodern perspectives to illuminate new facets of Stein's novels and to situate them within an expanded definition of the postmodern. The author argues that if we fail to consider the contexts within which postmodern innovations occur, and if we subsume all formal disruptions under a generalized postmodern mode, we obscure important differences among authors and distort the notion of the postmodern itself. The study expands our understanding of Stein as a novelist and a narrative theorist, repositions her work within a revised notion of literary history, and thus clarifies points of relation and divergence between modernism and postmodernism. It also assists in the historicizing of the postmodern literary emergence by insisting on the centrality of gender as a category of analysis. Finally, it argues for the importance of constructing definitions of postmodernism that will allow space to consider the complexity and diversity of its cultural practices. Curved Thought and Textual Wandering will be welcomed by scholars of modernism, of Gertrude Stein, and of feminist and narrative theory and postmodern culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057119687

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire Laubier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134970032

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The Condition of Women in France by Claire Laubier Pdf

Intended for the language student, this is a collection of documentary and statistical materials taken from adverts, newspapers, etc. Each extract relates to the different experiences of French women at work, at home and in politics.

Author : Mark Betz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816640355

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Beyond the Subtitle by Mark Betz Pdf

Examining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it istime for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in outdated notions of nationalism and dragged down by decades of auteurist criticism. Focusing on the cinemas of France and Italy, Betz reveals how the flowering of European art films in the postwar era is inseparable from the complex historical and political frameworks of the time.