Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English write by Peter I. Barta. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on literature and cinema in English or French by authors and directors not working in their native language. Artists with hybrid identities have become a defining phenomenon of contemporary reality following the increased mobility between civilisations during the postcolonial period and the waves of emigration to the West. Cinema and prose fiction remain the most popular sources of cultural consumption, not least owing to the adaptability of both to the new electronic media. This volume considers cultural products in English and French in which the explicitly multi-focal representation of authors' experiences of their native languages/cultures makes itself conspicuous. The essays explore work by the peripheral and those without a country, while problematising what might be meant by the widely used but not always well-defined term ‘bicultural’. The first section looks at films by such well-known filmmakers working in France as Bouchareb, Kechiche, Legzouli and Dridi, as well as the animated feature Persepolis. Here the focus is on the representation of human experience in spatial terms, exploring the appropriation of territory cohabited by ‘local’ people, newcomers and their children, haunted by the cultural memories of distant places. The second part is devoted to multicultural authors whose ‘native’ language was English, Russian, Polish, Hungarian or Spanish (Beckett, Herzen, Voyeikova, Triolet, Conrad, Hoffmann, Kristof, Dorfman), and their creative engagement with difference. A study of the emergence of multilingual writing in Montaigne and an autobiographical essay by Elleke Boehmer on growing up surrounded by English, Dutch, Afrikaans and Zulu frame the volume's chapters. The collection relishes the freedom provided by liberation from the confines of one language and culture and the delight in creative multilingualism. This book will be of significant interest to those studying the subject of biculturalism, as well as the fields of comparative literature and cinema.
French literature on screen
French literature on screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French literature on screen write by Homer B. Pettey. This book was released on 2019-05-16. French literature on screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation. Using a variety of textual and interpretive approaches, it sheds light on issues of gender, sexuality, class, politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of contexts, from the commercial to the archival and the aesthetic. The chapters, written by eminent international scholars, run chronologically from The Count of Monte Cristo through Proust and Bonjour, Tristesse to Philippe Djian’s Oh... (adapted for the screen as Elle). Collectively, they fill a need for contemporary discussions on the significance of France’s literary representations in the history of global cinema.
Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film
Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film write by Steven F Walker. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious, the study of this rapport falls into the more restricted category of hypertextuality. What the author has labeled a cryptic subtext, however, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been deliberately inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore these allusions and the hidden messages therein.
When Music Takes Over in Film
When Music Takes Over in Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Music Takes Over in Film write by Anna K. Windisch. This book was released on 2023-05-02. When Music Takes Over in Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a musical number inverts the normal relationship between the image track and the soundtrack in a film in such a way that what we see is determined by what we hear. As one potential approach, this definition provokes a variety of perspectives to investigate the disruptive potential of these moments and numbers as a creative device in the production of audiovisual narratives. In this sense, the book responds to a need for an anthology that introduces students as well as scholars of cinema, musicology, media studies and cultural studies more broadly, to recent discourses in film music scholarship. The volume includes contributions by early career researchers as well as by established experts in the fields of musicology, film studies, media studies, and cultural studies, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration in film music research.
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb write by Michael Gott. This book was released on 2020-09-21. ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
