Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2956120859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Encyclopedia of French Film Directors
Author: Philippe RègePublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081086939X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1486
Book Description
Cinema has been long associated with France, dating back to 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumi_re screened their works, the first public viewing of films anywhere. Early silent pioneers Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy BlachZ and others followed in the footsteps of the Lumi_re brothers and the tradition of important filmmaking continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895. From undisputed masters to obscure one-timers, nearly 3,000 directors are cited here, including at least 200 filmmakers not mentioned in similar books published in France. Each director's entry contains a brief biographical summary, including dates and places of birth and death; information on the individual's education and professional training; and other pertinent details, such as real names (when the filmmaker uses a pseudonym). The entries also provide complete filmographies, including credits for feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television work. Some of the most important names in the history of film can be found in this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age_Jean Renoir and RenZ Clair_to French New Wave artists such as Fran_ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
Great French Short Stories of the Twentieth Century
Author: Jennifer WagnerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486476235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This original dual-language short story collection features 15 newly translated works by important 20th-century authors. Previously unavailable in English versions, contents include "L'ami et la femme" by Irène Némirovsky, "Pleure, Pleure!" by Andrée Maillet, and tales by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Sailesh Ramchurn, Fred Kassak, Yann Means, Marc Villard, and others.
The Condition of Women in France
Author: Claire LaubierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134970021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Claire Laubier brings together documentary and statistical material; extracts from newspapers and journals, literary texts, advertisements, manifestos, and personal testimonies. Each extract relates to the different experiences of women in France at work, in politics, at home and in the family. Together they offer a direct and thought-provoking chronological and thematic account of women's lives in post-war France.
Les mots français
Author: Trudie Maria BoothPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351123726
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Les mots français: Vocabulaire, lectures et sujets de conversation presents a clear, thorough and systematic overview of modern French vocabulary on a variety of subjects. Written in the target language, each of the 32 chapters is divided into the following sections, with translations into English to facilitate the learning process: • basic vocabulary (vocabulaire de base) • additional vocabulary (vocabulaire supplémentaire) • related vocabulary (vocabulaire apparenté) • idiomatic expressions, sayings and proverbs (proverbes et expressions) • cultural readings (lectures). The book includes a range of communicative exercises and sample sentences, while an answer key and flashcards are available online. This is essential reading for learners at level A2–C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages, and Intermediate Mid–Advanced on the ACTFL proficiency scales.
The Body in Francophone Literature
Author: El Hadji Malick NdiayePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786494662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women's bodies, and the body's expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.
Black France
Author: Dominic ThomasPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253218810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
"[W]ithout a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African origin." —Alec Hargreaves, Florida State University France has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence within its borders. But recent violent events have raised questions about France's treatment of ethnic minorities. Challenging the identity politics that have set immigrants against the mainstream, Black France explores how black expressive culture has been reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France. Thomas brings forward questions such as—Why is France a privileged site of civilization? Who is French? Who is an immigrant? Who controls the networks of production? Black France poses an urgently needed reassessment of the French colonial legacy.
L'adieu au reg
Author: Jacques DISSLERPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291543848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Ce roman fait suite à Aurore du soir, dont le personnage principal personnage est Félix Cholet, un chirurgien de renom qui a dû renoncer à son métier pour cause de maladie. Les lecteurs l'ont vu changer d'existence, l'ont retrouvé dans le sud marocain à la tête d'un terrain de camping né de ses mains loin dans les pistes, au pied d'un vieux fort abandonné: Fort Bouj'Akrif. C'est dans ce site aux bornes de l'impossible qu'est née sa fille Zahra, l'héroïne de Adieu au reg. Elle va y passer une enfance en marge, à quatre heures d'Agadir. Les études en collège vont l'éloigner de ses parents, de son désert, lui faire découvrir une autre vie.Comment va-t-elle réagir ? C'est tout l'objet de ce roman riche en rebondissements.
Du temps au temps
Author: denis pichon-leroyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291898840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Loïc de Talgwern, jeune homme qui, élevé par sa mère, ne connaît pas son père, pratique le métier d'escort boy. Après avoir rencontré le garçon avec lequel il veut refaire sa vie, il abandonne son métier, vit un bonheur complet et s'intéresse à ses origines. Tentant de découvrir le mystère de sa naissance, soigneusement caché par sa mère, il rencontre son grand père maternel, qui avait vainement tenté de le revoir pendant des années.Avec son compagnon, Loïc se prend d'affection pour sa famille bretonne. Malheureusement, Loïc perd l'amour de sa vie, et, désespéré, il se réfugie dans la recherche de son père biologique.Héritier du domaine de son grand père, Loïc finira-t-il enfin par retrouver l'amour?
Aoristes et parfaits
Author: Pierre-Don GiancarliPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004313400
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Le présent volume regroupe onze contributions centrées sur le parfait et l’aoriste dans cinq langues : Joffre expose l’ambiguïté fondamentale du passif périphrastique et des déponents latins, tandis que Dalbera propose un invariant à son parfait. Giancarli vérifie l’existence d’une corrélation entre la variation d’auxiliaire et celle du participe passé du verbe corse. Le statut de parfait de la construction polonaise avoir + participe + objet est mis en doute successivement par Nowakowska et par Sikora. Treikelder se concentre sur l’émergence du parfait estonien en contexte atypique. En français, Lindschouw & Schøsler envisagent les relations entre circonstants temporels, passé compose et passé simple ; Vetters retrace la dérive aoristique de ce dernier tandis que Apothéloz se refuse à parler d’aoriste. This volume is a collection of eleven contributions dealing with perfect and aorist tenses in five languages: Joffre shows the fundamental ambiguity of the periphrasis of Latin passive and deponent verbs, while Dalbera proposes an invariant meaning for its perfect. Giancarli tests the hypothesis of a correlation between the variation of auxiliaries and that of past participles in Corsican. The perfect status of the Polish have + participle + object construction is questioned in turn by Nowakowska and Sikora. Treikelder focuses on the Estonian perfect in atypical contexts. Concerning French, Lindschouw & Schøsler look at the relationships between time adjuncts, passé compose and passé simple; Vetters describes the aoristic evolution of the latter, while Apothéloz explains why it should not be considered an aorist. Contributors are: Denis Apothéloz, Joseph Dalbera, Pierre-Don Giancarli, Marie-Dominique Joffre, Jan Lindschouw, Małgorzata Nowakowska, Lene Schøsler, Dorota Sikora, Anu Treikelder, Carl Vetters.
