American ‘Unculture’ in French Drama
Title | American ‘Unculture’ in French Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Les Essif |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2013-03-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137299037 |
A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver.
It's So French!
Title | It's So French! PDF eBook |
Author | Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0226742431 |
Looks at the influence of French culture on a variety of motion pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Gigi" and "Funny Face."
Double Takes
Title | Double Takes PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn A. Durham |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Culture in motion pictures |
ISBN | 9780874518740 |
Viewing cross-cultural differences through the lens of cinema.
Hollywood's Film Wars with France
Title | Hollywood's Film Wars with France PDF eBook |
Author | Jens Ulff-Møller |
Publisher | University Rochester Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781580460866 |
It is based on hitherto unstudied documents from these institutions. While European film production was at a standstill after World War I, Hollywood companies flooded the European market with hundreds of films at very low prices."--BOOK JACKET.
The Roman Noir in Post-war French Culture
Title | The Roman Noir in Post-war French Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Gorrara |
Publisher | Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780199246090 |
All the novelists studied were published initially in popular collections, such as the Serie noire, but they have been chosen for the innovation of their work and the exciting ways in which they resist tired conventions and offer new ways of representing social reality." "One of the first English-language studies of this popular genre, The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture offers much more than close readings of these fascinating texts; it demonstrates the important contribution of the roman noir to the cultural histories of post-war France."--Jacket.
The Death of French Culture
Title | The Death of French Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Morrison |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2010-08-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0745649947 |
For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. However, of this past glory, all that is left today is navel-gazing, nostalgia and timidity. Covering art, fashion, philosophy, literature and cinema, Donald Morrison argues that French culture no longer has the kind of international standing it once did.
French Theatre Today
Title | French Theatre Today PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Baron Turk |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-06-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1587299933 |
In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City’s ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month’s sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In French Theatre Today he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overview of contemporary French theatre. Situating many of the nearly 150 stage pieces he attended within contexts and timeframes that stretch backward and forward over a number of years, he reveals French theatre during the first decade of the twenty-first century to be remarkably vital, inclined toward both innovation and concern for its audience, and as open to international influence as it is respectful of national tradition. French Theatre Today provides a seamless mix of critical analysis with lively description, theoretical considerations with reflexive remarks by the theatremakers themselves, and matters of current French and American cultural politics. In the first part, “New York,” Turk offers close-ups of French theatre works singled out during the ACT FRENCH festival for their presumed attractiveness to American audiences and critics. The second part, “Paris,” depicts a more expansive range of French theatre pieces as they play out on their own soil. In the third part, “Avignon,” Turk captures the subject within a more fluid context that is, most interestingly, both eminently French and resolutely international. The Paris and Avignon chapters contain valuable and well-informed contextual and background information as well as descriptions of the milieus of the Avignon Festival and the various neighborhoods in Paris where he attended performances, information that readers cannot find easily elsewhere. Finally, in the spirit of inclusiveness that characterizes so much new French theatre and to give a representative account of his own experiences as a spectator, Turk rounds out his survey with observations on Paris’s lively opera scene and France’s wealth of circus entertainments, both traditional and newly envisioned. With his shrewd assessments of contemporary French theatre, Turk conveys an excitement and an affection for his topic destined to arouse similar responses in his readers. His book’s freshness and openness will reward theatre enthusiasts who are curious about an aspect of French culture that is inadequately known in this country, veteran scholars and students of contemporary world theatre, and those American theatre professionals who have the ultimate authority and good fortune to determine which new French works will reach audiences on these shores.