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Femmes
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
At Home in Our Sounds
At Home in Our Sounds examines the ways Black artists reacted to the heightened visibility of racial difference in interwar Paris, illustrating the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challenges Europe faced in the aftermath of World War I.
Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction
Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction investigates Morrison’s aesthetics in terms of narrative’s ethical import. Morrison’s writing is concerned with ethically debatable issues and it offers a problematic representation of human experiences in African American history. Whilst previous critical studies consider ethics in relation to events in the story, Palladino explores its intersection with aesthetics. Narrativizing the moral law, Morrison’s imperative is to relate the past, and to find ways to tell what is often unspeakable. The quest for ways to narrate horrific facts is a quest for an aesthetics which includes an appeal to the reader and thus necessarily engages with the ethical. This study foregrounds the equivocal as a key feature of narrative ethics.
Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter
Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated in the sport of yachting; collected paintings; cultivated and collected rare orchids; designed and tended his gardens; and engaged in local politics. Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter presents the first comprehensive account of Caillebotte's manifold activities. It presents a completely new critical interpretation of Caillebotte's broad career that highlights the singular salience of 'work', and which intersects histories and theories of visual culture, ideology, and psychoanalysis. Where the recent art historical 'rediscovery' of Caillebotte offers multiple narratives of his identification with working men, this book goes beyond them towards excavating what his work was in its own terms. Born to an haut bourgeois milieu in which he was never completely comfortable and assailed by traumatic familial bereavements, Caillebotte adopted and adapted the ideologically normative category of work for his own purposes, deconstructing its ostensibly class-determinate parameters in order to bridge the chasm of his social alienation.
François Truffaut
François Truffaut è il regista simbolo della Nouvelle vague. Con il travolgente successo de I 400 colpi ha dato forma al linguaggio giovane e spregiudicato dei “giovani turchi”, i critici agguerriti raccolti intorno alla redazione dei «Cahiers du Cinéma», tesi alla creazione di un nuovo modo di fare film e di trasporre la vita stessa dentro il cinema. Per Truffaut il cinema è sempre stato una palestra per imparare a vivere e la sua filmografia si dipana coerentemente attraverso una serie di titoli in cui i temi dell’autobiografia, dell’influenza della letteratura, della centralità dell’amore, di un’attenzione nei confronti del mondo dell’infanzia si svelano e si rivela in ogni singola opera. A quarant’anni dalla sua morte, il volume riattualizza la figura di Truffaut proponendo analisi critico-interpretative dei suoi maggiori film, con l’obiettivo di tornare sull’autore fondativo della modernità cinematografica mettendolo in relazione con quella che è la sua eredità maggiore, ovvero un approccio autenticamente umanistico nei confronti della vita, dell’arte e del cinema.
IBSS: Political Science: 2004 Vol. 53
First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features: * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. * Breadth: Today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. * International Coverage: The IBSS reviews scholarship published in over thirty languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. * User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis
This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.
Beyond French Feminisms
This volume, a collection of essays by a number of high-profile personalities working in philosophy, literature, sociology, cinema, theatre, journalism, and politics, covers a number a of recent and crucial developments in the field of French Feminisms that have made a reassessment necessary. Beyond French Feminisms proposes to answer the question: what is new in French Feminism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? The essays reflect the shift from the theoretical and philosophical approaches that characterized feminism twenty years ago, to the more social and political questions of today. Topics include: the 'parité' and PACS debates, the France-USA dialogue, the 'multicultural' issues, and the new trends in literature and film by women.
