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Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality
With his complex and unconventional films, Robert Altman often draws an impassioned response from critics but bafflement and indifference from the general public. Some audiences have dismissed his movies as insignificant, unsatisfying, and unreadable. Ironically, Altman might agree: he makes films in order to challenge filmgoers' expectations of straightforward narratives and easily understood endings. In Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality, Robert T. Self sheds light on Altman's work and provides the most comprehensive analysis of his films to date. With close readings of classics like MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville, as well as the more recent films The Player, Short Cuts, and Cookie's Fortune, Self asserts the value of Altman's work not only to film theory and the entertainment industry but to American culture. Book jacket.
Les grandes passions de l'Histoire - Le bonheur impossible
Le jour où son père devint le pape Alexandre VI, Lucrèce Borgia cessa de s’appartenir. Simple jouet dans le jeu politique du Saint-Siège, à treize ans, on la maria au brutal Giovanni Sforza, maître de Pesaro. Deux ans plus tard, son père la rappelle à Rome, car son divorce se dessine, l’alliance avec les Sforza n’étant plus souhaitée. Elle ne s’en plaint pas. Elle a trouvé l’amour : Pedro Calderon, le camérier du pape. Mais César Borgia, son terrible frère, veille au grain. D’un coup de poignard, il met fin à cette passion indigne des ambitions de la famille. Elle conserve, comme seuls souvenirs, un fils et une aversion profonde pour les manigances des hommes. À l’aube de la vingtaine, Lucrèce Borgia prend conscience qu’elle doit échapper à cette famille qui n’est que source de malheurs. Grâce à son mariage avec le duc de Ferrare, elle quittera Rome et n’y reviendra jamais, pas même pour les funérailles de son père. Au gré des ans, le duc de Ferrare se réjouira de la nombreuse descendance qu’elle lui donnera, mais Lucrèce ne connaîtra jamais plus l’amour...
Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing
"As a mode of consciousness, craft does not follow the tropes of technique; and instead writers, as with all artists, explore material, formal, and aesthetic conditions through the development of an individual project and their evolution as artists over time. This book examines the theories and histories that define craft as a collaborative, anti-capitalistic, process-based philosophy that intervenes in traditions that exclude some writers from making art. Drawing from 25 interviews across the disciplines, Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing examines how artists traverse material, disciplinary, generic, and sociocultural factors that define them and their practice. It also argues that creative writers are artists who use craft consciousness as an exploratory, invention method that defies definitions of genre, discipline, or form. Craft consciousness revolutionizes the way we conceptualize and liberate the practicing artist who teaches and designs graduate programs for creative writers"--
Griffithiana
Journal of film history.
Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series
This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as Leonardo Sciascia, Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Francesco Guccini, Loriano Macchiavelli, Marcello Fois, Maurizio De Giovanni, and Giancarlo De Cataldo; film directors such as Elio Petri, Pietro Germi, Michele Placido, and Damiano Damiani; and TV series such as the “Commissario De Luca” series, the “Commissario Nardone” series, and “Romanzo criminale–The series.” Providing the most wide-ranging examination of this sub-genre in Italy, Barbara Pezzotti places works set in the Risorgimento, WWII, and the Years of Lead in the larger social and political context of contemporary Italy.
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