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The Tribe
The Tribe, the companion volume to Ralph Rumney's excellent The Consul is another fascinating slice of history concerning the ultra avant-garde's favourite sect. Jean-Michel Mension was a member of the Situationist International's precursor, the less political and more art focussed Lettrist International (which was founded in 1945 in Paris by the Romanian Jean-Isidore Isou as a reaction to Andre Breton's dictatorial control of the surrealist movement). Surrealism had become something of a cult of personality surrounding Breton and had drifted from its dada origins into mysticism. In 1956 at Alba in Italy a group of lettrists took an active part at the First World Congress of Liberated Artist...
The Last Baron
A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean “Wado” Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle Époque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one going? And what does it take to save the life of the dazzling but flawed man who inherited it all? Launched in the 1880s by the first baron, the Empain industrial empire spread from Belgium and France to span more than a dozen countries. When Wado took over, he further expanded the company, became a key...
From Ciné-goûters to Screenings for Cinephilie
In the book establish an initial assessment on the life of cinemas belonging to the Instituts français and the Alliances françaises.
Een buitengewone bedrieger
Hij noemt zichzelf Ricardo, Alexandre, Daniel of Richard. Hij is Argentijn, Braziliaan of Portugees. Hij beweert chirurg, ingenieur, fotograaf of politieagent te zijn, zonder dat zijn vrouwen aan de waarheid daarvan twijfelen. Deze beroepsleugenaar slaagt erin vier huwelijken in vier landen aan te gaan en doet dit met verschillende persoonlijkheden. Een buitengewone bedrieger vertelt het verhaal van een meesteroplichter aan de hand van de getuigenissen van de vrouwen die van hem hielden, een privédetective die hem volgde en de politieagentes die hem betrapten. Een ongelooflijke reis op zoek naar een geniale kameleon, van Parijs via Warschau naar de favela’s in Brazilië. Welke strategieën gebruikte hij? Wat waren zijn drijfveren? En: was hij een gevaarlijke manipulator of een geesteszieke minnaar? Een buitengewone bedrieger is een razend spannend, waargebeurd verhaal voor fans van de Netflix-hitserie The Tinder Swindler en de film Catch Me If You Can met Leonardo DiCaprio.
Pandemic Protagonists
During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.
Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory
The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this contradictory context has yielded new kinds of cinematic language through which to give desire visual form. By offering close readings of key contemporary films such as Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Water Lilies and Carol alongside a broader filmography encompassing over 300 other films released between 1927 and 2018, the book provokes new ways of understanding a changing field of representation. Bradbury-Rance resists charting a narrative of representational progress or shoring up the lesbian's categorisation in the newly available terms of the visible. Instead, she argues for a feminist framework that can understand lesbianism's queerness. Drawing on a provocative theoretical and visual corpus, Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory reveals the conditions of lesbian legibility in the twenty-first century.
The Algeria Hotel
The Algeria Hotel in Vichy was the sight of the Gestapo Headquarters in World War II: an emblem of the French cohabitation with the worst excesses of Nazism. This book aims to lift the veil of amnesia now shrouding France's collective memory of such collusion - in Bordeaux, Vichy and Tulle.
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as sophisticated as the moral outlook of the world's most gifted philosophers. By drawing on this knowledge to navigate life's most perplexing problems, ethics becomes second nature. Ogien explores, through experimental philosophy and other methods, the responses nineteen real-world conundrums provoke. Is a short, mediocre life better than no life at all? Is it acceptable to kill a healthy perso...
