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Le Livre noir de la censure. Sous la direction d'Emmanuel Pierrat
La censure est aujourd'hui omniprésente : presse, cinéma, arts plastiques, livres, théâtre, musique, jeux vidéo, télévision, etc. Il ne s'écoule plus une semaine sans qu'elle fasse la une, d'affaire en affaire, dans un monde où l'art et l'information connaissent de moins en moins de frontières et, paradoxalement, de plus en plus de restrictions. Comment la définir ? Où s'exerce-t-elle ? Qui l'impose ? Et sous quelles formes ? Au fil de dix parties couvrant des domaines aussi bien " classiques " (les bonnes mœurs, le pouvoir, la religion) que contemporains (la santé, les nouvelles technologies, la loi du marché, les minorités, la jeunesse), sans oublier l'autocensure grandissa...
Confronting Colonial Objects
The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. Confronting Colonial Objects seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies and argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. The book shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods and went far beyond looting. It presents micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and retu...
What Is Sexual Harassment?
In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United States prohibit sexual relationships across hierarchical lines and sometimes among coworkers, arguing that these liaisons should have no place in the workplace. In this age of globalization, how do cultural and legal nuances translate? And when they differ, how are their subtleties and complexities understood? In comparing how sexual harassment—a concept that first emerged in 1975—has been defined differently in France and the United States, Abigail Saguy explores not only the social problem of sexual harassment but also the broader cultural concerns of cross-national differences and similarities.
Pornographic Archaeology
In Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, Zrinka Stahuljak explores the connections and fissures between the history of sexuality, nineteenth-century views of the Middle Ages, and the conceptualization of modern France. This cultural history uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in nineteenth-century French identity. Stahuljak's provocative study of sex, blood, race, and love in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical and historical literature demonstrates how French medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, public health policy, marriage, family, and th...
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. It wasn’t alway...
Impostors
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the “intercultural hoax.” In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy’s Sarah are two infamous examples. Miller’s contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative fr...
La vie du livre contemporain
L'édition française a beaucoup changé depuis le début des années Apostrophes. Dans les années 1970," la galaxie Gutenberg ", encore largement artisanale et familiale, est engagée dans une politique de qualité. Mais la distribution s'industrialise et l'influence des médias de masse s'accroît ; elle doit alors se tourner vers le grand public au moment oit de puissants groupes industriels et financiers investissent dans le livre. Les séries d'avant-garde, les publications de prestige sont abandonnées au profit de fast books chroniqués partout avec ferveur. La littérature française elle-même, insensiblement, se fait plus informelle ; les auteurs pour beaucoup livrent des producti...
Vivian Maier
Many know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. When the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no surviving relatives, Maier shot to stardom almost overnight. Bannos contrasts Maier's life has been created, mostly by the men who have profited from her work. Maier was extremely conscientious about how her work was developed, printed, and cropped, even though she also made a clear choice never to display it.
Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 With the dramatic rise of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while Freemasonry, in turn, directly influenced developments in art. This mutually enhancing relationship has only recently begun to receive its due. The vilification of Masons, and their own secretive practices, have hampered critical study and interpretation. As perceptions change, and as masonic archives and institutions begin opening to the public, the time is ripe for a fresh consideration of the interconnections between Freemasonry and the visual arts. This volume offers diverse approaches, and exp...
