Decentring France - 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 Decentring France write by Gemma King. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Decentring France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today’s France through language. From rival lingua francas such as English to socio-politically marginalised languages such as Arabic or Kurdish, multilingual characters in these films exploit their knowledge of multiple languages, and offer counter-perspectives to dominant ideologies of the role of linguistic diversity in society. Decentring France is the first substantial study of multilingual film in France. Unpacking the power dynamics at play in the dialogue of eight emblematic films, this book argues that many contemporary French films take a new approach to language and power, showing how even the most historically-maligned languages can empower their speakers. This book offers a unique insight to academics and students alike, into the place of language and power in French cinema today.
Transnational French Studies
Transnational French Studies - 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 Transnational French Studies write by Charles Forsdick. This book was released on 2023-10-01. Transnational French Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.
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 Gott Michael Gott. This book was released on 2020-09-21. ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of France's first filmmakers of North African descent and his career as a director and producer now spans over 35 years. Remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements and narrative settings, Bouchareb's work has engaged with and reflected on a variety of crucial social, political and historical issues; from the role of colonial troops in the French army during the Second World War, to terrorism in contemporary Europe. This volume examines Bouchareb's films from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring key influences on his output and considering new theoretical approaches to his filmmaking.
Jacques Audiard
Jacques Audiard - 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 Jacques Audiard write by Gemma King. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Jacques Audiard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard’s films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation. Jacques Audiard is the first book on the cinema of one of the most important French directors working today. It studies his screenwriting background, his collaborative practices and his use of genre motifs alongside his reputation as a celebrated French auteur. Using the motif of border-crossing – both physical and symbolic – the book explores how Audiard’s films construct and transcend boundaries of many forms. Focusing on the representation of the physical body, French society and broader transnational contexts, it reveals how Audiard’s cinema occupies a space both within and beyond the imaginary of French cinema.
Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research
Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research - 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 Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research write by Heidi Bojsen. This book was released on 2023-01-13. Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring. Despite this and other theoretical and empirical work, and ever stronger calls for the inclusion of other languages, epistemologies and constructions of culture in higher education, decentring and translanguaging practices are often relegated to the margins or suppressed in research and education because of the organisational structures of education institutions and prevailing language norms, policies and ideologies. The authors draw on research on pluri- and multilingualism within education studies, as well as post- and decolonial theoretical contributions to the research on the role of language in education and knowledge production, to provide evidence that decentring cannot happen until learners have been given the tools to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning and (trans)languaging.
