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Rape and Representation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Rape and Representation

Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how cultural forms construct and reenforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature not only reflects but also contributes to what a society believes about itself. Fourteen essays by authors in the fields of English, American and African-American, German, African, Brazilian, Classical, and French literatures and film presen...

New Novel, New Wave, New Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

New Novel, New Wave, New Politics

Until now, writings on the celebrated movements in literature and film that emerged in France in the mid-1950s - the New Novel and New Wave - have concentrated on their formal innovations, not on their engagement with history or politics. New Novel, New Wave, New Politics overturns this traditional approach. Lynn A. Higgins argues that the New Novelists (e.g., Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras) and New Wave filmmakers (e.g., Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais) "engage in a kind of historiography.... They enact the conflicts, the double binds of postwar history and representation." Higgins claims that what art historian Serge Guilbaut has said ...

Bertrand Tavernier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation. Both a consummate artist and a controversial public figure, he is a passionate advocate for social causes and also a tireless defender of world cinema in general and the French cinematic heritage in particular. Lynn Higgins’ book offers a guided tour through Tavernier’s oeuvre, taking into account both its prodigious diversity and its unifying themes. It explores his use of genre and adaptation, his work with actors and his affection for characters, his treatment of France’s colonial history, his explorations of the powers of art and the complexities of intergenerational relations, both among fictional characters and within French cinema history. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly book about Tavernier. Original and lively, sophisticated and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in film studies, gender studies, and French cultural studies including academics, students, cinema enthusiasts, and Tavernier fans.

Baroque Bodies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Baroque Bodies

Mitchell Greenberg explores the significance of fantasies of the body in seventeenth-century France through provocative and subtle readings of some of the most intriguing texts of the period. Beginning with an eloquent invocation of the status of the king in classical France, Greenberg surveys the complex sociopolitical history of Louis XIV's reign, analyzing both Moliere and the entire corpus of Racine. The central chapters of Baroque Bodies deal with such fascinating texts as the Memoires of the abbe de Choisy (the first existing account of a male cross-dresser); two founding texts of the modern pornographic genre, L'ecole des filles and L'academie des dames; and the "autobiography" of Mar...

Monster of Monsters: Series Two Mortem’s Level 1: #1 Abandoned And Alone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 29

Monster of Monsters: Series Two Mortem’s Level 1: #1 Abandoned And Alone

The story of Kein (Kīn) continues in the 8th installment of this novella series. Enjoy this short story to catch up on what has been happening. Kein's heartbreaking and yet joyous journey continues as the results of Basement Level are dished out as cold as they can be. Alone, she must deal with the repercussions of the Judicium and a past she only wanted to forget. No one has won the Mortem and now Kein is one. She has no chance of surviving unless she can find some allies in the sadistic game. Her journey started in Monster of Monsters #1 Part One: Mortem's Opening and moves forward at an unrelenting pace. Light and darkness... All Kein wanted was to be devoured. As an orphan, she had been...

Shades of Gray #2 From Moscow, With Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

Shades of Gray #2 From Moscow, With Love

Shades of Gray #2 From Moscow, With Love: CHIMERA Cover Edition The Shades Of Gray Series follows the adventures of Kat, a woman with no memory of her past called the Pandora Project by those who hunt her, and Kim, a woman leading the life of a legal assassin called a Life Closer. The world they live in is plagued by clouds that prevent the sun from shining down on the land called Dry Clouds, making all who live in Noir forced to live in endless night. Start this series for "Free." Shades of Gray #1 Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness starts this series and follows the adventures of Kat and Kim. Continue this serial series and find out more about these women and the world of danger and mystery t...

Shades Of Gray #1 Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness: 2024 Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Shades Of Gray #1 Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness: 2024 Edition

An experiment known as the Pandora Project or Kat escapes the corporation, which had been experimenting on her, trying to create the perfect killing machine. Kat runs into Kim, the Phoenix a Life Closer or Legal Assassin. At first, Kim is going to kill Kat for seeing her face while on a Closing, but she finds out that Kat is the key. The key to what, Kim does not know, but until she does, Kim will let Kat live, and so they form a shaky partnership. Kat has no memory beyond a year ago, and she wants to discover who she is. Kim discovers that her mother was murdered, and she wants to find out who killed her and end their life with her own hands. Shades Of Gray #1 Noir, City Shrouded By Darknes...

Bertrand Tavernier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Bertrand Tavernier

Collected interviews with the director who is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave

The Girls
  • Language: en

The Girls

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-27
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  • Publisher: Picador

In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise for her exams while her two younger sisters Carlie and Lisa went skiing with their father. On the way back from their trip, their car veered off the highway, flipped on its side and burst into flames. Both her sisters were killed. Their father walked away from the accident with only minor injuries. This book is about what happened next. In a memoir of breathtaking power, Chloe Higgins describes the heartbreaking aftermath of that one terrible day. It is a story of grieving, and learning to leave grief behind, for anyone who has ever loved, and lost

Amazing: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Flash Fiction #8
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 25

Amazing: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Flash Fiction #8

Amazing is a collection of two flash fiction stories highlighting tiny scenes from AabiLynn's Dragon Rite series inspired by my love of dragons and the stories that dragons have been in. Check out more about the series by going to and reading for free AabiLynn's Dragon Rite #0 Dragon's Brood. Amazing includes the following stories. 1. AabiLynn's Dragon Rite: A Tiny Baby Dragon Hatches Type: Flash Fiction and the word count is about 450 words This short-short story in the Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror Flash Fiction series is a peek into the world of AabiLynn's Dragon Rite, and it is about a girl, Cara, who finds a baby dragon. 2. AabiLynn's Dragon Rite: The Sky Of Dragons Type: Flash Fic...