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Cherchez la Femme

Author : Cheryl Gerber
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496826221
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Cherchez la Femme written by Cheryl Gerber and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Constance Adler, Karen Celestan, Alison Fensterstock, Kathy Finn, Helen Freund, Cheryl Gerber, Anne Gisleson, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Karen Trahan Leathem, Katy Reckdahl, Melanie Warner Spencer, Sue Strachan, Kim Vaz-Deville, and Geraldine Wyckoff New Orleans native Cheryl Gerber captures the vibrancy and diversity of New Orleans women in Cherchez la Femme: New Orleans Women. Inspired by the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, DC, Gerber’s book includes over two hundred photographs of the city’s most well-known women and the everyday women who make New Orleans so rich and diverse. Drawing from her own archives as well as new works, Gerber’s selection of photographs in Cherchez la Femme highlights the contributions of women to the city, making it one of the only photographic histories of modern New Orleans women. Alongside Gerber’s photographs are twelve essays written by female writers about such women as Leah Chase, Irma Thomas, Mignon Faget, and Trixie Minx. Also featured are prominent groups of women that have made their mark on the city, like the Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls, and the Krewe of Muses, among others. The book is divided into eleven chapters, each celebrating the women who add to New Orleans’s uniqueness, including entertainers, socialites, activists, musicians, chefs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and burlesque artists.

Cherchez la femme!

Author : Walter Pfeiffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783905509663
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Cherchez la femme! written by Walter Pfeiffer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

Author : Helen Hanson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230282016
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts written by Helen Hanson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.

Willem de Kooning Nonstop

Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626744X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Willem de Kooning Nonstop written by Rosalind E. Krauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This image-rich essay offers a radical rethinking of the ab-ex painter Willem de Kooning by one of the greatest American art critics. Many have written about de Kooning s startling canvases of monstrous women, but none have approached them this way. In prose as energetic as her subject, Rosalind Krauss demonstrates how de Kooning could never stop reworking the same subject. Deploying one telling image after another, she shows that, from the early days of his career, de Kooning nearly always (1) worked with a tripartite vertical structure, (2) projected his own figure and point of view as the (male) artist into the painting, and (3) was compelled to produce the female figure, legs splayed obscenely or knees projected into the viewer s space in practically everything he made. Hidden in plain sight even in paintings of highways, boats, and landscapes, Woman is always there. How could we have missed this?"

Chekhov's Leading Lady

Author : Harvey J. Pitcher
Publisher : New York : F. Watts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chekhov's Leading Lady written by Harvey J. Pitcher and published by New York : F. Watts. This book was released on 1980 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a leading actress of the Moscow Art Theatre who became the wife of Anton Chekhov three years before his death.

Handbook of French Popular Culture

Author : Pierre L. Horn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313368821
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of French Popular Culture written by Pierre L. Horn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1991-05-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, there has been much scholarly and general interest in French popular culture, but very little has been written on the subject in English. The authors of this book address that lack in a series of highly readable and well-documented essays describing French life styles, attitudes, and entertainments as well as the writers and performers currently favored by the French public. Several chapters explore French tastes in popular literature and other reading matter, including comics, cartoons, mystery and spy fiction, newspapers and magazines, and science fiction. Film, popular music, radio, and television are also discussed in detail, and influences from other cultures--particularly American imports--are assessed. The remaining essays examine French sports, the use of leisure time, the French style of eating and drinking, and relations between men and women and their attitudes toward romantic love. Each chapter provides up-to-date historical and bibliographic information that will enable the reader to pursue subjects of particular interest. Written by an international group of specialists, this handbook offers the benefits of broad coverage, a variety of viewpoints, and solid scholarship.

The Philosophy of Film Noir

Author : Mark T. Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813123771
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Film Noir written by Mark T. Conard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explores the philosophical underpinnings of classic films.

Out of this World

Author : Holly Virginia Blackford
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807744662
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Out of this World written by Holly Virginia Blackford and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyzes the way the girls discuss pleasure in becoming "the eye" of the reader, use film to decode the genres of literature, master forms such as fantasy and Gothic, describe the differences between reading and viewing films, and identify only with animal rather than human characters. Blackford intertwines the vivid voices of her girl respondents with her own story of moving beyond her feminist and multicultural assumptions of how children are shaped by the stories we tell in literature. This breakthrough text presents surprising findings about how girls appreciate literature and what they enjoy about reading.

Making Up the Rococo

Author : Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367436
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Making Up the Rococo written by Melissa Lee Hyde and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look.

Mrs. Caliban

Author : Rachel Ingalls
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122709X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Caliban written by Rachel Ingalls and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” (The New York Times Book Review) and “something of a miracle” (The New Yorker) In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research… Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yates’s domestic realism, B-horror movies, and the fairy tales of Angela Carter—how such a short novel could contain all of these disparate elements is a testament to its startling and singular charm.

ArtCurious

Author : Jennifer Dasal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134590
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book ArtCurious written by Jennifer Dasal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.

The Chill (Special Edition)

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0593311930
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Chill (Special Edition) written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special edition of The Chill by Ross Macdonald. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy. In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Special Edition

The Mohicans of Paris

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Elibron Classics
ISBN 13 : 1402175108
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Mohicans of Paris written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Elibron Classics. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by George Routledge and Sons, , London and New York

Xerxes

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216041
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Xerxes written by Richard Stoneman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash Xerxes’ failings but sets against them such triumphs as the architectural splendor of Persepolis and a consideration of Xerxes’ religious commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which the Greek communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values.

Lost Goddesses

Author : Trudy Jacobsen
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 8776940012
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Lost Goddesses written by Trudy Jacobsen and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In prehistoric times, Southeast Asian women enjoyed high status. When, how and why did that change? This book explores the history of gender relations through economics, politics, art and literature. This title is a narrative and visual tour de force, of interest to scholars and the general public.

Nearly Native, Barely Civilized

Author : Roy Dilley
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004265287
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Nearly Native, Barely Civilized written by Roy Dilley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly Native, Barely Civilized by Roy Dilley offers the first full-length biography of Henri Gaden, an exceptional French colonial character who lived through some of the most radical transformations in West African history. It provides an in-depth, intimate and rounded portrayal of the man, his place in history, and the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities not only in his personal and professional life but also at the heart of the colonial enterprise. Soldier, ethnographer and linguist, lover, father, administrator and Governor, Henri Gaden (1867-1939) lived for 45 years in West Africa. Faced with the chaos, insecurity and insanity of colonial existence, Gaden experienced a rich mosaic of human pain and passion, of curiosity and intellectual endeavour, of folly and failure.

The Mohicans of Paris

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479400164
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Mohicans of Paris written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1864 and based on Dumas's sprawing novel of the same name, this play is a tale of murder and ruthless ambition spread through many levels of French society. As a young girl, Leonie barely escapes being killed by her greedy uncle, though her young brother is not so fortunate. With the two children being so conveniently dead, the uncle inherits his deceased brother's vast fortune. Leonie is raised by a woman with criminal associations, being educated to be a singer under the stage name, Rose Noel. She comes to the attention of three artists--a painter, writer, and doctor--who befriend her. Meanwhile, Mr. Jackal, a police officer with Sherlockian powers of observation, tries to solve the cold case for which another--an innocent--man has been blamed--and in the process coins the classic phrase, "Cherchez la Femme!" A classic crime drama worthy of the Great Detective himself!