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The ArtsOctober 2024Queer cinema in contemporary France
Five directors
by Todd Reeser
Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these directors' careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with wide international release. Whether having sex on the beach or kissing in the high school swimming pool, these cinematic characters create or embody forward-looking, open-ended and optimistic forms of queerness and modes of living, loving and desiring. Whether they are white, beur or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans* or queer, they open up hetero- and cisnormativity to new ways of being a gendered subject.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Five Directors
Auteurism from Assayas to Ozon
by Kate Ince
Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the term auteur by Andrew Sarris. Through the popular, controversial and critically acclaimed films of Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne borthers, Michael Haneke and Francois Ozon, this book looks into how the meaning of 'auteur' has changed over this half-century, and assesses the current state of Francophone auteur cinema. It combines French philosophical and sociological approaches with methodologies from the Anglo-American fields of gender studies, queer theory and postmodernism. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of film studies, European cinema and French and Francophone studies, as well as to film enthusiasts.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800August 2004King Lear
Second edition
by Alexander Leggatt
This updated and expanded analysis of King Lear in performance includes new chapters on the television version of the Royal National Theatre production directed by Richard Eyre and starring Ian Holm; and on Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran'. Earlier chapters provide close, detailed analyses of the stage, film and television interpretations of John Gielgud, Harley Granville Barker, Paul Scofield, Peter Brook, Peter Ustinov, Michael Gambon, Adrian Noble, Grigori Kozintsev, Michael Hordern, Jonathan Miller, Laurence Olivier and Michael Elliott. By examining such issues as the playing of Lear, the staging of the storm and the battle, and the choice of historical period, this book shows how interpretation and performance are bound together, and how the play is transformed through different historical and political contexts. This will be essential reading for students in English, drama or film at any level, theatregoers, and anyone involved in productions of the play.
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MedicineApril 2021Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages
From England to the Mediterranean
by Elma Brenner, François-Olivier Touati
For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe. The chapters, including contributions by leading voices such as Luke Demaitre, Carole Rawcliffe and Charlotte Roberts, challenge the view that people with leprosy were uniformly excluded and stigmatised. Instead, they reveal the complexity of responses to this disease and the fine line between segregation and integration. Ranging across disciplines, from history to bioarchaeology, Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages encompasses post-medieval perspectives as well as the attitudes and responses of contemporaries. Subjects include hospital care, diet, sanctity, miraculous healing, diagnosis, iconography and public health regulation. This richly illustrated collection presents previously unpublished archival and material sources from England to the Mediterranean.
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October 2017Die Geschichte der gestiefelten Kitty
by Beatrix Potter, Quentin Blake, Sabine Erbrich
»Es war einmal eine ehrliche, wohlerzogene junge schwarze Katze« … Dass Kitty alles andere als ehrlich und wohlerzogen ist, liegt bei einer Erzählung von Beatrix Potter natürlich auf der Hand. Dass sie ihrem Frauchen, einer liebenswürdigen alten Dame, aber derart hinterlistige Streiche spielt, damit konnte niemand rechnen. Anstatt nämlich brav im Gartenhäuschen zu nächtigen, streunt Kitty in Frack, Pelzstiefeln und mit einer Schrotflinte bewaffnet durch die Wälder und begegnet allerlei fiesen Gestalten wie zwei ungehobelten Frettchen und – zu Kittys großem Entsetzen – schließlich auch dem hundsgemeinen Fuchs Mr. Todd. Zum Glück gibt es da noch ihre Freunde, die Kitty aus dem größten Schlamassel wieder heraushelfen … Eine bisher unveröffentlichte Geschichte von Beatrix Potter - erstmals auf Deutsch Mit Illustrationen des britischen Großmeisters Sir Quentin Blake
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2018Shakespeare by McBean
by Adrian Woodhouse
Shakespeare by McBean collects 300 images, many never before published, taken by the renowned photographer Angus McBean. Incorporating images from every one of Shakespeare's plays performed at the RSC, with some from the Old Vic, between the years 1845-62, it is a veritable who's who of the British stage. Richard Burton, Vivien Leigh, Robert Donat, Alec Guiness, Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, Edith Evans, Paul Scofield, Diana Rigg, Anthony Quayle, Charles Laughton, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Dorothy Tutin are just some of the names that appear. Angus McBean was an exceptional talent, whether he was transforming the photography of rehearsals, inspiring the Beatles, or entertaining his admireres with his light-hearted espousal of surrealism in portraiture. In a career lasting half a century his influence can be seen in everything from advertising to pop culture.
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January 1988Der letzte Brief
Die Schreckensherrschaft der Französischen Revolution in Augenzeugenberichten
by Blanc, Olivier / Französisch Pätzold, Brigitte
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October 2011Die rote Prinzessin
Ein revolutionäres Leben
by Sofka Zinovieff, Aurelia Batlogg
Prinzessin Sofka Dolgorukij (1907-1994) war eine ungewöhnlich schöne, kluge und eigensinnige Frau. Ihr Lebensweg führte aus den Palästen von St. Petersburg quer durch das Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, bis in ein schlichtes Cottage in Cornwall. Neben ihrer Begeisterung für den Kommunismus, mehreren Ehemännern und zahlreichen Liebhabern nahmen in ihrem Leben die Literatur und der Film – sie war die persönliche Assistentin von Sir Laurence Olivier – und ihr Kampf für Gerechtigkeit eine wichtige Rolle ein. Einfühlsam erzählt Sofka Zinovieff das Leben ihrer Großmutter – eine Biographie über ein Leben, wie es romanhafter nicht hätte sein können.
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October 2012Die Liebende
by Albert Ostermaier
Mit sämtlichen Gefühls- und Spielarten der Liebe wird der Pariser Polizeikommissar Olivier konfrontiert. Er hat eine Frau zu verhören, die von sich behauptet sie verwandle die Männer nach dem Akt in alle möglichen und unmöglichen Gestalten, sie entstelle ihre Rivalinnen, bringe Liebhaber und Liebhaberinnen um. Zunächst glaubt der Kommissar, es mit einer Verwirrten zu tun zu haben. Dann begreift er, daß die Person ein ungeheures Wissen um Gefühle von Liebe und Haß, Zuneigung und Zerstörung hat. Immer wieder hört er die Bänder ihres Verhöres ab um dem Geheimnis dieser Frau auf die Spur zu kommen. Am Ende dieser großartig komponierten, spannenden und weit ausgreifenden Erzählung finden die Polizeikollegen den Kommissar ermordet auf.
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January 1998Planspiele einer Liebe
Roman
by Orban, Christine; Orban, Olivier / Französisch Gabler, Irmengard
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June 2002Die Welt von Bloomsbury
Auf den Spuren von Virginia Woolf und ihren Freunden
by Todd, Pamela
