Author: Deborah Walker-Morrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786725185
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.
Classic French Noir
Author: Deborah Walker-Morrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786725185
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786725185
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.
Author:
Publisher: Editions Publibook
ISBN: 2342158025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: Editions Publibook
ISBN: 2342158025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Technique of Eroticism
Author: Lo Duca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Interpretation
Author: James Nolan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847698107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In recent decades the explosive growth of globalization and regional integration has fuelled parallel growth in multilingual conferences. Although conference interpreting has come of age as a profession, interpreter training programs have had varied success, pointing to the need for an instructional manual which covers the subject comprehensively. This book seeks to fill that need by providing a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in various aspects of the art. It is meant to serve as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programs in the classroom and online, particularly those for students preparing for conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings. This expanded second edition includes additional exercises and provides direct links to a variety of web-based resources and practice speeches, also including additional language combinations.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847698107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In recent decades the explosive growth of globalization and regional integration has fuelled parallel growth in multilingual conferences. Although conference interpreting has come of age as a profession, interpreter training programs have had varied success, pointing to the need for an instructional manual which covers the subject comprehensively. This book seeks to fill that need by providing a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in various aspects of the art. It is meant to serve as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programs in the classroom and online, particularly those for students preparing for conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings. This expanded second edition includes additional exercises and provides direct links to a variety of web-based resources and practice speeches, also including additional language combinations.
La belle ogresse
Author: Joëlle Pétillot
Publisher: Bouquineo
ISBN: 2313001768
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Dans ce cabinet de psychologie atypique, une vieille dame vient se faire aider pour surmonter l'absence d'un chat fugueur, un jeune garçon trouve tout naturel de venir raconter les rêves de son père, une amazone amputée d'un sein déboule, guidée par un chauffeur de taxi tombé raide amoureux de son visage aperçu dans le rétroviseur... Les vies plus ou moins blessées s'entremêlent, et Louise, la belle et plantureuse secrétaire règne sur ce ballet de dits et de non-dits avec une arme redoutable contre l'angoisse des uns ou la supposée inaptitude au bonheur des autres : la gourmandise. Les odeurs de caramel et de vanille, d'orange et de chocolat interviennent de manière on ne peut plus terrienne pour l'apaisement. Et les deux psys, sensés prendre des notes d'un ton grave, en sont vite conscients. À travailler tels des sculpteurs cette pâte humaine de façon pour le moins inattendue, ils vont se trouver en situation d'exercer une discipline trop méconnue de leurs pairs : la psychologie épicurienne.
Publisher: Bouquineo
ISBN: 2313001768
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Dans ce cabinet de psychologie atypique, une vieille dame vient se faire aider pour surmonter l'absence d'un chat fugueur, un jeune garçon trouve tout naturel de venir raconter les rêves de son père, une amazone amputée d'un sein déboule, guidée par un chauffeur de taxi tombé raide amoureux de son visage aperçu dans le rétroviseur... Les vies plus ou moins blessées s'entremêlent, et Louise, la belle et plantureuse secrétaire règne sur ce ballet de dits et de non-dits avec une arme redoutable contre l'angoisse des uns ou la supposée inaptitude au bonheur des autres : la gourmandise. Les odeurs de caramel et de vanille, d'orange et de chocolat interviennent de manière on ne peut plus terrienne pour l'apaisement. Et les deux psys, sensés prendre des notes d'un ton grave, en sont vite conscients. À travailler tels des sculpteurs cette pâte humaine de façon pour le moins inattendue, ils vont se trouver en situation d'exercer une discipline trop méconnue de leurs pairs : la psychologie épicurienne.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Pamphlets on Biology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Rapports et procès-verbaux des réunions
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Illustrated Guide to Film Directors
Author: David Quinlan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389204084
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389204084
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise
Author: Michael Adas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351895788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas. This volume illustrates the ways in which these European technological advantages shaped the expansion of the global system, whilst making clear that Western technology both adapted models from other cultures and was at times seriously challenged by them. In the arts of war, the West had much less of a technological edge over its Asian adversaries than is usually believed. Substantially dealing with the issue of technology transfer between the world and Europe, these studies underline the interactive nature of the process.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351895788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas. This volume illustrates the ways in which these European technological advantages shaped the expansion of the global system, whilst making clear that Western technology both adapted models from other cultures and was at times seriously challenged by them. In the arts of war, the West had much less of a technological edge over its Asian adversaries than is usually believed. Substantially dealing with the issue of technology transfer between the world and Europe, these studies underline the interactive nature of the process.