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Our Osage Hills
This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from “Our Osage Hills,” a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews. Signed only with the initials “J.J.M.,” Mathews’s column featured regularly in the Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital during the early 1930s. While Mathews is best known for his novel Sundown (1934), the pieces gathered in this volume reveal him to be a compelling essayist. Marked by wit and erudition, Mathews’s column not only evokes the unique beauty of the Osage prairie, but also takes on urgent political issues, such as ecological conservation and Osage sovereignty. In Our Osage Hills, Michael Snyder int...
John Joseph Mathews
John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not come easily to Mathews, and his personality was full of contradictions. In this captivating biography, Michael Snyder provides the first book-length account of this fascinating figure. Known as “Jo” to all his friends, Mathews had a multifaceted identity. A novelist, naturalist, biographer, historian, and tribal preservationist, he was a true “man of letters.” Snyder draws on a wealth of sources, many of them previously untapped, to narrate Mathews’s story. Much of the writer’s f...
La vérité en face (Les gardiens du secret, T3)
Pourquoi des scientifiques de réputation internationale ont-ils créé et élevé des enfants surdoués avant de les envoyer sur tous les continents du monde ? Pourquoi les avoir surveillés durant des années ? Mike, Jonas, Fred, Maï-Li, Lucia et leurs amis, devenus des adolescents aux pouvoirs surnaturels, profitent des rencontres de Lugano pour défier leurs géniteurs.
Etranges connexions (Les gardiens du secret, T1)
Regroupés au sein d'une Fondation secrète, des scientifiques ont programmé des enfants pour qu'ils relèvent les défis d'une humanité en danger. Parmi eux, Mike et Jonas, deux métis élevés séparément par des familles adoptives. Devenus adolescents, ils se reconnaissent, comprennent qu'ils disposent de capacités cognitives exceptionnelles et que des individus oeuvrent dans l'ombre pour les manipuler. Pourchassés par des biologistes coréens, Mike et Jonas tentent d'entrer en contact avec d'autres adolescents adoptés dans les mêmes circonstances? Ce premier tome d'une trilogie d'anticipation ambitieuse intitulée Les gardiens du Secret se déploie sur plusieurs continents et met en scène les questionnements de jeunes prodiges qui vont affronter les périls majeurs de notre époque, au cours de différentes épreuves. Une réflexion sur les dérives possibles de la science, sur le libre arbitre de l'être humain et ses idéaux.
Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood
This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of commerce and banking in Oklahoma from their genesis to the eve of statehood in 1907. Banking in Oklahoma before Statehood is not just a story of men sitting behind desks. Author Michael J. Hightower describes the riverboat trade in the Arkansas and Red River valleys and freighting on the Santa Fe Trail. Shortages of both currency and credit posed major impediments to regional commerce until storek...
The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-century French Literature
Studying works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, this volume re-thinks twentieth-century French literature and engages with the question of distinctions between the factual and the fictional.
Francophone Belgian Cinema
Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms. Alongside the Dardenne brothers, this book considers four promising Francophone Belgian filmmakers who have received limited critical attention in academic publications on contemporary European cinema: Joachim Lafosse, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Lucas Belvaux and Bouli Lanners. Exploring these filmmakers' themes of post-industrialism, paternalism, the fractured nuclear family and spatial dynamics, as well as their work in the more commercial road movie and polar genres, Jamie Steele analyses their stylistic continuities and filiation. This is complemented by an analysis of how the industrial aspects of film production, distribution and exhibition contribute to the creation of both a regional and transnational cinema.
The Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema
In this study of the impact and influence of the New Wave in French cinema, Douglas Morrey looks at both the subsequent careers of New Wave filmmakers and the work of later film directors and film movements in France. This book is organized around a series of key moments from the past 50 years of French cinema in order to show how the meaning and legacy of the New Wave have shifted over time and how the priorities, approaches and discourses of filmmakers and film critics have changed over the years. Morrey tackles key concepts such as the auteur, the relationship of form and content, gender and sexuality, intertextuality and rhythm. Filmmakers discussed include Godard, Truffaut, Varda, Chabrol and Rohmer plus Philippe Garrel, Luc Besson, Leos Carax, Bruno Dumont, the Dardenne brothers, Christophe Honoré, François Ozon and Jacques Audiard.
