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Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung
The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their thinking by an optimism that leads to dogmatism and ultimately rationalism. However, on closer inspection, such a conception seems untenable, not only after careful study of the impact of scepticism on numerous intellectual domains in the period, but also as a result of a better understanding of the character of the Enlightenment. As Giorgio Tonelli has rightly observed: “the Enlightenment was indeed the Age of Reason but one of th...
The Lumière Galaxy
Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and museums, onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our habits and excite our imaginations. Casetti travels from the remote corners of film history and theory to the most surprising sites on the internet and in our cities to prove the ongoing relevance of cinema. He does away with traditional notions of canon, repetition, apparatus, and spectatorship in favor of new keywords, including expansion, relocation, assemblage, and performance. The result is an innovative understanding of cinema's place in our lives and culture, along with a critical sea-change in the study of the art. The more the nature of cinema transforms, the more it discovers its own identity, and Casetti helps readers realize the galaxy of possibilities embedded in the medium.
From Plato to Lumière
With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text. Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumière brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumière includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.
The Lumiere Autochrome
Louis Lumière is perhaps best known in the U.S. for his seminal role in the invention of cinema, but his most important contribution to the history of photography was the autochrome. Engagingly written and marvelously illustrated with over 300 images, The Lumière Autochrome: History, Technology, and Preservation tells the fascinating story of the first industrially produced form of color photography. Initial chapters present the Lumière family enterprise, set out the challenges posed by early color photography, and recount the invention, rise, and eventual decline of the autochrome, which for the first four decades of the twentieth century was the most widely used form of commercial color...
The Adam Smith Review
The Adam Smith Review provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith's works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings for the modern world.
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory
This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional...
Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-century Europe
This is the first in-depth study of the major role played by royal monuments in the public space of expanding cities across eighteenth-century Europe. Using the royal monuments as the basis for its examination of modern European cities, the book considers the development of urban landscapes from the creation of capital cities to the last embers of the Ancien Régime and at how the royal politics of the arts affected the cityscapes of the time.
The Lumiere Affair
Natalie Conway should be thrilled at the prospect of covering the Cannes Film Festival. She's desperate to revive her struggling career, she's passionate about movies, and Cannes is the heart and soul of cinematic glamour and tradition, the place where film legends are born, made, or left withering on the vine. But Cannes is in France, and going to France means facing painful memories of Nattie's brief childhood in Paris and the bizarre accident that killed her mother and forced her mother's lover, Michel Claudel, to ship Nattie off to the New Mexico desert to live with a father she had never met. So France is Nattie's personal nightmare -- but with the bank foreclosing on her house in Los A...
La sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au Siècle des Lumières: Tome VI
Ce volume de Transversales constitue le sixième volet des travaux de spécialistes des études sur le dix-huitième siècle français et britannique. Dans le cadre d'un projet de la Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bretagne (MSHB), La sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au siècle des Lumières : l'émergence d'un nouveau modèle de société , ces chercheurs tentent de redéfinir les modes opératoires de la sociabilité pour chacune des deux nations, à partir de sources célèbres ou méconnues, et s'interrogent sur la réalité de la supériorité du modèle français de sociabilité. Les articles de cet ouvrage invitent à repenser la sociabilité et l'acte de socialisation par le truchement des notions de conflit et d'antagonisme. Selon Georg Simmel, c'est bien le conflit en tant qu' action réciproque entre les hommes qui va permettre la création d'une voie qui mènera à une sorte d'unité même si elle passe par la destruction de l'une des parties .
La sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au siècle des Lumières: Les enjeux thérapeutiques et esthétiques de la sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle
Ce deuxieme volume de Transversales constitue le deuxieme volet des travaux de specialistes des etudes sur le dix-huitieme siecle francais et britannique. Dans le cadre d'un projet de la Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bretagne (MSHB), La sociabilite en France et en Grande-Bretagne au Siecle des Lumieres: l'emergence d'un nouveau modele de societe, ces chercheurs tentent de redefinir les modes operatoires de la sociabilite pour chacune des deux nations, a partir de sources celebres ou meconnues, et s'interrogent sur la realite de la superiorite du modele francais de sociabilite. Les conclusions de Georg Simmel qui voyait en cette derniere la forme ludique de la socialisation et un symbole de la vie servent de trame theorique a ce recueil ou sont analysees la nature et la fonction des enjeux therapeutiques et esthetiques de la sociabilite au XVIIIe siecle.
