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Download or read book L’Auberge espagnole written by Ben McCann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part romantic comedy, part sitcom, part social drama, L’Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) recounts a familiar ‘youth’ ritual – the move from university to ‘the real world’, the often complicated personal, romantic and cultural encounters that ensue, and the moral uncertainties that characterize that key biological and physiological developmental stage between adolescence and adulthood. French director Cédric Klapisch showcases the extraordinary colour and beauty of Barcelona’s architecture, and places his hero Xavier at the heart of this smartly written film, which makes a series of wry observations on educational exchange programmes, multi-culturalism, and the direction European youth might take in the twenty-first century. This book addresses the topic of Europe’s youth generation, paying particular attention to the ways in which the film depicts the transition from adolescence to adulthood as allegory for the experiences of European society as it moves through periods of readjustment towards uncertain futures. It also looks into the ecosystem of contemporary French cinema, the Erasmus programme and its influence on youth experience, and identity politics in relation to ‘nationhood’ and ‘European-ness’. The book also examines the two sequels to the film – Russian Dolls (2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013) – and how the complications faced by the main characters across the trilogy suggest that the move to adulthood is a never-ending process of growing up and reaching a level of self-actualization.
Book Synopsis L'auberge espagnole - Barcelona für ein Jahr by : Romain Duris
Download or read book L'auberge espagnole - Barcelona für ein Jahr written by Romain Duris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forget the Pills! 100 Life-Giving Statements about Movie L'Auberge Espagnole by : Grace Young
Download or read book Forget the Pills! 100 Life-Giving Statements about Movie L'Auberge Espagnole written by Grace Young and published by Lennex. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing movie reviews of "L'Auberge Espagnole." Don't say we didn't warn you: these reviews are known to shock with their unconventionality or intimacy. Some may be startled by their biting sincerity; others may be spellbound by their unbridled flights of fantasy. Don't buy this book if: 1. You don't have nerves of steel. 2. You expect to get pregnant in the next five minutes. 3. You've heard it all.
Book Synopsis L'auberge espagnole by : Cédric Klapisch
Download or read book L'auberge espagnole written by Cédric Klapisch and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange programme to gain a working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they'll remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend, then heads to Barcelona." [box cover note].
Book Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005 by : Roger Ebert
Download or read book Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, including the films "Seabiscuit, The Passion of the Christ," and "Finding Nemo," the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. It also contains the year's interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes.
Book Synopsis Screening Youth by : Romain Chareyron
Download or read book Screening Youth written by Romain Chareyron and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. Showing how the topic of 'youth' has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions - political, social, religious, economic or cultural - that agitate a society at a given time in its history.
Book Synopsis Hexagonal Variations by : Jo McCormack
Download or read book Hexagonal Variations written by Jo McCormack and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hexagonal Variations provides an essential overview of key debates about contemporary French society and culture. Concise, challenging and comprehensive, its chapters each address the processes of change and redefinition that characterise France today. Contributors analyse and situate cinematic, literary, online and visual texts, mediatic, political and everyday discourses, in each case pinpointing how diversity, plurality and reinvention inflect cultural and social evolution in France. The chapters in the collection share a key set of thematic concerns and raise topics for debate among scholars and students alike. Central to these are questions about France’s uncertain place and role in Europe and the wider world; the morphing topography of its capital; and the many conundrums posed by the persistence of Republican paradigms in a global environment. If France is no longer the exception, what are the versions and varieties of being French that are lived, thought and imagined in the new millennium?
Book Synopsis Inside the California Food Revolution by : Joyce Goldstein
Download or read book Inside the California Food Revolution written by Joyce Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative and immensely readable insider’s account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cooking had become part of the national vocabulary. Interviews with almost two hundred chefs, purveyors, artisans, winemakers, and food writers bring to life an approach to cooking grounded in passion, bold innovation, and a dedication to "flavor first." Goldstein explains how the counterculture movement in the West gave rise to a restaurant culture characterized by open kitchens, women in leadership positions, and a surprising number of chefs and artisanal food producers who lacked formal training. The new cuisine challenged the conventional kitchen hierarchy and French dominance in fine dining, leading to a more egalitarian and informal food scene. In weaving Goldstein’s views on California food culture with profiles of those who played a part in its development—from Alice Waters to Bill Niman to Wolfgang Puck—Inside the California Food Revolution demonstrates that, while fresh produce and locally sourced ingredients are iconic in California, what transforms these elements into a unique cuisine is a distinctly Western culture of openness, creativity, and collaboration. Engagingly written and full of captivating anecdotes, this book shows how the inspirations that emerged in California went on to transform the experience of eating throughout the United States and the world.
Book Synopsis Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema by : Jean-Pierre Boulé
Download or read book Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema written by Jean-Pierre Boulé and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered 'othering' gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir's writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir's key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).
Book Synopsis If this be Treason by : Gregory Rabassa
Download or read book If this be Treason written by Gregory Rabassa and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is incalculable. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the art of the craft. Anecdotal, and always illuminating, If This Be Treason traces Rabassa's career, from his boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days "collecting" languages, the two-and-a-half years he spent overseas during WWII, his travels, until one day "I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortazar's Hopscotch] for a commercial publisher." Rabassa concludes with his "rap sheet," a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.
Book Synopsis Multilingualism in Film by : Ralf Junkerjurgen
Download or read book Multilingualism in Film written by Ralf Junkerjurgen and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a cutting-edge collection of cross- and transdisciplinary take on multilingualism in film. Its topics range from translation theory to political and aesthetic quandaries of audiovisual translation and subtitling, to narratological function of multilingualism in fiction, to language ideologies and language poetics onscreen.
Download or read book A Bag of Marbles written by Joseph Joffo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two young brothers use ingenuity, spirit and teamwor to elude the Nazis. When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free"--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Death of French Culture by : Donald Morrison
Download or read book The Death of French Culture written by Donald Morrison and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. However, of this past glory, all that is left today is navel-gazing, nostalgia and timidity. Covering art, fashion, philosophy, literature and cinema, Donald Morrison argues that French culture no longer has the kind of international standing it once did.
Book Synopsis Français Interactif by : Karen Kelton
Download or read book Français Interactif written by Karen Kelton and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.
Download or read book Great Books written by David Denby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “A lively adventure of the mind...The tone of the prose...is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy, vigor, intellectual curiosity, and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative journalism.” —The New York Times Book Review At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books, he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche. Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiography -- an inspiration for anyone in love with the written word.
Download or read book 9TimeZones.Com written by Alan C. Baird and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hi Alan, I am Anikó..." These words were downloaded from Budapest (GMT +1 time zone) into my eMail box (GMT -8) on a cold, blustery December Wednesday, and they changed my life. I had impulsively posted a personal ad for a correspondent on the Internet, and several folks responded, from all over the world. Half of them were certifiable crazies, and I didn´t reply, hoping they´d give up. Most of the rest weren´t really interested enough to keep up with my messages. After they realized that my idea of "correspondence" meant exchanges of more than twenty words at a time, they soon fell silent. Anikó was different. She made her living as a financial manager, but anyone could see that a shy writer was in hiding underneath, waiting for encouragement. Although her English was not fluent, it was comprehensible, and an obviously fine mind operated that keyboard so far away. For every message, she struggled to find the right words in her Magyar/English dictionary, but her simple phrases always contained thoughtful insights. Every now and then, they approached the level of poetry. For the first few eMails, Anikó used an Internet connection at her workplace. During the Christmas holiday, I was touched when she trudged through the snow and ice, halfway across Budapest, to send her replies. Compared to this determined woman, I was downright lazy: my morning "commute" consisted of stumbling sleepily down the hallway from my bed to the computer! Later on, when the script´s logistics were stalled at Buda´s funicular, she ventured out to ride the railway in those biting winter winds, even though she was deathly ill with the flu. Her commitment to our screenplay was overwhelming, and she wanted the descriptions to be absolutely accurate. We learned to trust each other by exchanging background information, and some of my eMails included short stories which had been published in magazines or anthologies. But I was mostly showing off, for my new pen pal. In return, a few of Anikó´s messages contained powerful recollections from her childhood, during the Hungarian uprising of 1956. The cumulative impact of those intense and violent memories jolted my sense of scale. Suddenly, the hardships in my life seemed quite insignificant. I urged her to consider preparing this material for publication, but she didn´t feel up to the task, claiming her anecdotes had no worth, and that she possessed few writing skills, especially with her imperfect knowledge of my language. I giggled at the irony in her misgivings, because I knew many American writers who were desperate for a mere whisper of the raw writing talent which Anikó was beginning to display, broken English and all. Gradually, her reminiscences from 1956 started haunting me. I dreamed about the Russian soldier who had left the print of his boot upon her tiny leg. I clearly imagined the senseless massacre which ended a gentle poetry reading. Worst of all, I could see that tank commander vividly - his infernal machine tearing up the neighborhood streets - in the bull´s-eye of my rifle. She had to write these stories. She MUST. I casually suggested that I might be able to help, hoping that my prodding would release her own creativity. Instead, she immediately accepted my offer: "How do we begin? What comes next?!" Hm. I´d experienced a few small successes with my screenplays, when they placed well in competitions, so I proposed to embed her stories as flashbacks in a contemporary movie plot. I hoped she would rebel against this idea, and write her authentic, heartfelt remembrances in defiance of my loutish commercial instincts. But when she agreed to this sketchy plan, I was floored. Uh-oh. Now my pride was on the line. Somewhere deep in my brain, a little voice warned, "You´d better not screw this up, Al. Her childhood memories are much too precious for the likes of you." So that´s how we began an informal one-on-one screenwriting seminar and workshop, consistin
Book Synopsis Multilingual Perspectives in Geolinguistics: 2nd Edition by : Hikaru Kitabayashi
Download or read book Multilingual Perspectives in Geolinguistics: 2nd Edition written by Hikaru Kitabayashi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multilingual Perspectives in Geolinguistics: 2nd Edition is a publication of the American Society of Geolinguistics, created with the active participation of its Japanese membership. The 2nd edition is a significantly expanded version with new chapters contributed by special request of the editorial staff. The editors-in-chief are Professor Wayne Finke of Baruch College (City University of New York) and Professor Hikaru Kitabayashi of Daito Bunka University. The object was to offer potential readers a more complete introduction to current literature dealing with geolinguistic themes than was the case with the first edition with Geolinguistics being defined as the study of languages and varieties of language in contact and/or conflict. This 2nd edition also contains many small corrections to the original text and it is to be hoped that it will offer a more satisfying experience than was possible with the first edition, which due to its historical interest is being kept in print for the time being.
