Author: James Cannon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131702172X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies have focused on its urban and social history, or on particular ways in which it was represented during particular periods. By bringing together and analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone’s existence, this study offers a rich and nuanced account of how the area was perceived and used by successive generations of Parisian novelists (including Zola and Flaubert), poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners. More generally, it aims to raise awareness of a neglected aspect of Parisian cultural history while pointing to links between current and past perceptions of the city’s periphery.
The Paris Zone
Author: James Cannon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131702172X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies have focused on its urban and social history, or on particular ways in which it was represented during particular periods. By bringing together and analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone’s existence, this study offers a rich and nuanced account of how the area was perceived and used by successive generations of Parisian novelists (including Zola and Flaubert), poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners. More generally, it aims to raise awareness of a neglected aspect of Parisian cultural history while pointing to links between current and past perceptions of the city’s periphery.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131702172X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies have focused on its urban and social history, or on particular ways in which it was represented during particular periods. By bringing together and analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone’s existence, this study offers a rich and nuanced account of how the area was perceived and used by successive generations of Parisian novelists (including Zola and Flaubert), poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners. More generally, it aims to raise awareness of a neglected aspect of Parisian cultural history while pointing to links between current and past perceptions of the city’s periphery.
Artists and the Avant-garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900
Author: Patricia Eckert Boyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The publication consists of chapters on the three most important avant-garde theaters in Paris at that time: the Théâtre libre, the Théâtre d'art and the Théâtre de l'oeuvre. It also includes a checklist of the Atlas Collection at the National Gallery of Art.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The publication consists of chapters on the three most important avant-garde theaters in Paris at that time: the Théâtre libre, the Théâtre d'art and the Théâtre de l'oeuvre. It also includes a checklist of the Atlas Collection at the National Gallery of Art.
Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Author: Charles O’Brien
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217202
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217202
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.
Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Oedipus at Thebes
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300074239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300074239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.
La Horda
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539417385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
La Horda
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539417385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
La Horda
The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Jack Censer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134861591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
First Published in 2004. The ideas of the Enlightenment and belligerent royal officials critically influenced the French Revolution, but how did an entire generation learn about such ideas prior to the Revolution? Jack R. Censer’s achievement in this volume is to marshal a vast literature in order to provide a coherent and original interpretation of the role of the French Press in the dissemination of social and political ideas in the years leading up to the Revolution. Censer also explores the relationship between journalists and government officials and unearths a range of sophisticated censorship techniques employed by the government to keep Bad News off the front pages. In a field dominated by specialized studies but few generalizations, The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment provides a bold synthesis regarding the periodical press from mid-century to the Revolution.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134861591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
First Published in 2004. The ideas of the Enlightenment and belligerent royal officials critically influenced the French Revolution, but how did an entire generation learn about such ideas prior to the Revolution? Jack R. Censer’s achievement in this volume is to marshal a vast literature in order to provide a coherent and original interpretation of the role of the French Press in the dissemination of social and political ideas in the years leading up to the Revolution. Censer also explores the relationship between journalists and government officials and unearths a range of sophisticated censorship techniques employed by the government to keep Bad News off the front pages. In a field dominated by specialized studies but few generalizations, The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment provides a bold synthesis regarding the periodical press from mid-century to the Revolution.
French National Cinema
Author: Susan Hayward
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415307821
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415307821
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism
Author: Ramón Máiz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134276966
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book provides an up to date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134276966
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book provides an up to date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states.
The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960
Author: C. G. Crisp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253315502
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Colin Crisp re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic French cinema, and represents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the mould-breakers they perceived themselves to be.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253315502
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Colin Crisp re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic French cinema, and represents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the mould-breakers they perceived themselves to be.