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Muriel's Robin
Jane and Jack are off for a visit to Nannie Muriel's thatched cottage in the woods, when an unexpected adventure awaits! While their visit starts off like any other visit, soon things change. The children disobey Nannie and head off into the dark woods! Soon the children are lost. A Robin Red Breast has been watching and following the children as they wonder further and further into the woods. Will they find their way home? Will Nannie find them? In this sweet story, the children learn that sticking together and following rules is best, and sometimes, a friend can take on a most magical form.
Fragile
Est-ce que je sens qu’on va finir par s’entretuer dans cette bagnole ? Maman que tout agace, papa qui ne parvient plus à la calmer, mes sœurs qui veulent disparaître. J’ai cinq ans et j’ai l’intuition que ça pourrait mal finir, alors je vole au secours des miens et je fais le clown. Si je suis venue au monde avec ces yeux ronds et cette bouille qui fait sourire aussitôt que j’apparais, c’est sûrement pour mettre de la couleur sur le gris de notre vie. Muriel Robin Longtemps Muriel Robin nous a fait pleurer de rire. Voilà que pour la première fois elle nous parle d’elle avec une gravité qui nous touche aux larmes. Sans rien dissimuler de ses chagrins d’enfant et de femme, ni d’un lourd secret, elle nous livre un portrait d’elle-même à la fois terriblement émouvant, impitoyable et drôle. Un livre événement
Reframing difference
Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassovitz and Djamel Bensalah. Her analyses compare the work of male and female, majority and minority film-makers, and emphasise the significance of authorship in the representation of gender and ethnicity. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French. This timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between cinema and citizenship in a multicultural society.
Billboard
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Advances in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics
Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail and empirical strength than before. The approach has also proved to have fruitful practical applications in a number of areas such as language teaching, lexicography, translation studies and computer-aided translation. This volume contains twelve studies comparing linguistic phenomena in English and seven other languages. The topics range from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure. The studies highlight similarities and differences in the use, semantics and functions of the compared items, as well as the emergence of new meanings and language change. The emphasis varies from purely linguistic studies to those focusing on practical applications.
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Humour in Contemporary France
Introduction : Humour : a serious issue in contemporary France -- Charlie Hebdo : from controversy to consensus? -- Dieudonné : from anti-racist activism to allegations of anti-Semitism -- Jamel Comedy Club : stand-up comedy à la française? -- Islam and humour: more than just a debate about cartoons.
Patriarchy in Practice
This collection covers a diverse and multi-disciplinary range of topics on how masculinities might be re-imagined outside of patriarchal power structures. Crucially, the book highlights the lived complexity of both patriarchies and masculinities as plural and situated, exploring questions of how they are constructed, negotiated and re-negotiated in daily practice; of how performative regimes interact, contradict and overlap with each other across a range of contexts. Contributors engage with theoretical frameworks engaging with feminist theory, contemporary politics of gender, bodies and marginalised experiences of masculinites. Global case studies are wide-ranging and include analysis of masculinity among communities such as drag artists, InCels and e-sports enthusiasts, as well as in the context of the body, for instance in relation to alcoholism and physical disability. In an era of resurgence of typically hegemonic patriarchal figures in the form of 'strong men' leadership, this book seeks to uncover what an alternative vision of masculinity could look like - one that is firmly rooted in a gender equality and feminist discourse.
Muriel's Garden
Jane, Jack, Fegan, and Fannie create a magical rock garden in this sweet adventure at Nannie Muriel's beautiful thatched cottage in the woods! Just when the children think that things aren't turning out as they planned, they learn that their patience and hard work, along with some surprises, can create.....a beautiful garden!
Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture
In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in a politically uncertain post-9/11 world. Composed of eleven essays and a contextualising introduction, this volume is interdisciplinary in its treatment of engagement in a variety of forms, as it reassesses the relationship between different types of cultural production and society as it is played out in the twenty-first century. With a focus on both the development of different cultural forms (Part 1) and on the particular crises that have attracted the attention of cultural practitioners (Part 2), this volume maps and analyses some of the ways in which cultural texts of all kinds are being used to respond to, engage with and challenge crises in the contemporary Francophone world.
