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Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945
A 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Love at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage... What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...) and featuring the decade's most iconic stars (Colbert, Dunne, Grant, Hepburn...), these films set romantic comedy standards for decades to come. Screwball comedy embarked on two challenging missions: to poke fun at established social norms and to undermine stereotypical depictions of gender roles, putting forward a discourse that postulated the possibility of equality between men and women. Grégoire Halbout's reexamination of...
Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945
"Establishes screwball comedy as a genre, and explains its success with the public - with 130 films produced between 1934 and 1945 - presented under three broad perspectives: historical and thematic; stylistic and aesthetic; and sociological"--
Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind
Why does Stanley Cavell's philosophical thought matter for music? And how did Cavell's musical practice and appreciation of music give shape to his indelible philosophical claims about cinema, human speech, opera, the expression of skepticism, and ordinary language philosophy? Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind provides a first-of-its-kind intervention by leading philosophers and scholars of music into an intellectual landscape in need of such charting. As a performer who then trained as a philosopher, the arc of Cavell's wide-ranging investigation of music maps consistently with a proximate concern for the features of human experience that involve music and sound, including the sound of pros...
Borges, Buddhism and World Literature
This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants, Borges’s essays formulated a 'morphological' conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe), whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of ...
Impression, projection. Une histoire médiatique entre cinéma et journalisme
Le cinéma et la presse ont toujours possédé un grand nombre d’affinités électives, de même qu’ils ont toujours été en compétition. Leurs canaux de diffusion et leurs plateformes ne cessent de se croiser, depuis les actualités filmées du début du XXe siècle jusqu’au journalisme participatif du Web 2.0. Leurs matériaux et leur langage connaissent également des hybridités et des échanges foisonnants, que le journalisme investisse petit et grand écrans ou que le cinéma absorbe la matière journalistique. De nouveaux genres cinématographiques – tels le reportage cinématographique et le film-enquête –, et genres journalistiques – telle la critique cinématographique – en sont nés. À ces remédiations s’ajoutent les représentations réciproques, le cinéma ayant continuellement mis à l’épreuve le journalisme, le journalisme ayant participé à l’avènement comme à l’institutionnalisation du cinéma. À travers les alliances et les rivalités, les correspondances et les contradictions, les simultanéités et les renversements, ce volume propose ainsi d’explorer la redéfinition continuelle de nos médias et de leurs identités.
Les amoureux de Schéhérazade
Aucun autre livre, hormis peut-être la Bible ou L'Odyssée, n'a imprégné aussi profondément la littérature que les Mille et une nuits depuis leur apparition en Occident sous la plume de leur premier traducteur, Antoine Galland. De Proust à Salman Rushdie, de Balzac à Naguib Mahfouz, tant d'écrivains amoureux de Schéhérazade partagent cette ambition: réinventer, sans les imiter, les Mille et une nuits. De là l'inépuisable variété de ces réécritures modernes, qui toutes ressemblent au modèle sans pour autant se ressembler entre elles. Pourtant, dans cette profusion, quatre courants dominent, fournissant les quatre volets de la présente étude. La lecture politique des Nuits:...
Intimacy in Cinema
Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into question the boundaries between these extremes, and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser's theories of the relationship between the intimacy of cinema and the cinema of intimacy, the essays explore intimacy in silent and classic Hollywood movies, underground, documentary and animation films; and contemporary Hollywood, British, Canadian and Australian cinema from a variety of approaches.
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