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Continental Films

Author : Christine Leteux
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299339807
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Continental Films written by Christine Leteux and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven employed some of the greatest French actors and most prestigious directors of the time, including Maurice Tourneur, Henri Decoin, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Marcel Carné. Using recently opened archival documents, including reams of testimony from the épuration (purification) hearings conducted shortly after the war, Christine Leteux has produced the most authoritative and complete history of the company and its impact on the French film industry—both during the war and after. She captures the wide range of responses to the firm from those who were eager to work for a company whose ideology matched their own, to others who reluctantly accepted contracts out of necessity, to those who abhorred the company but felt compelled to participate in order to protect family members from Nazi reprisals. She examines not only the formation and management of Continental Films but also the personalities involved, the fraught and often deadly political circumstances of the period, the critical reception of the films, and many of the more notorious and controversial events. As Bertrand Tavernier explains in his foreword, Leteux overturns many of the preconceptions and clichés that have come to be associated with Continental Films. Published to rave reviews in French and translated by the author into English, this work shatters expectations and will reinvigorate study of a lesser-known but significant period of French film history.

Histoire Des Girondins Et Des Massacres de Septembre D'après Les Documents Officiels Et Inédits

Author : Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Histoire Des Girondins Et Des Massacres de Septembre D'après Les Documents Officiels Et Inédits written by Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crime, histoire et sociétés

Author : René Levy
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600008990
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Crime, histoire et sociétés written by René Levy and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions ...

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Transactions ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paris 1961

Author : Jim House
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514349
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Paris 1961 written by Jim House and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police on the night of 17 October 1961 is one of the most contested events in contemporary French history. This book provides a multi-layered investigation of the repression through a critical examination of newly opened archives, oral sources, the press and contemporary political movements and debates. The roots of violence are traced back to counter-insurgency techniques developed by the French military in North Africa and introduced into Paris to crush the independence movement among Algerian migrant workers. The study shows how and why this event was rapidly expunged from public visibility in France, but was kept alive by immigrant and militant minorities, to resurface in a dramatic form after the 1980s. Through this case-study the authors explore both the dynamics of state terror as well as the complex memorial processes by which these events continue to inform and shape post-colonial society.

CT Suite

Author : Barry F. Saunders
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392003
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book CT Suite written by Barry F. Saunders and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT suite, the unit within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital where CT images are made and interpreted. Focusing on how expertise is performed and how CT images are made into diagnostic evidence, he concentrates not on the function of CT images for patients but on the function of the images for medical professionals going about their routines. Yet Saunders offers more than insider ethnography. He links diagnostic work to practices and conventions from outside medicine and from earlier historical moments. In dialogue with science and technology studies, he makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the visual cultures of medicine. Saunders’s analyses are informed by strands of cultural history and theory including art historical critiques of realist representation, Walter Benjamin’s concerns about violence in “mechanical reproduction,” and tropes of detective fiction such as intrigue, the case, and the culprit. Saunders analyzes the diagnostic “gaze” of medical personnel reading images at the viewbox, the two-dimensional images or slices of the human body rendered by the scanner, methods of archiving images, and the use of scans as pedagogical tools in clinical conferences. Bringing cloistered diagnostic practices into public view, he reveals the customs and the social and professional hierarchies that are formulated and negotiated around the weighty presence of the CT scanner. At the same time, by returning throughout to the nineteenth-century ideas of detection and scientific authority that inform contemporary medical diagnosis, Saunders highlights the specters of the past in what appears to be a preeminently modern machine.

Algeria and France, 1800-2000

Author : Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630746
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Algeria and France, 1800-2000 written by Patricia M. E. Lorcin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Algeria and France that formed during the 132 years of colonial rule did not end in 1962 when Algeria gained its independence. This long period of occupation left an indelible mark on the social fabric of both societies, one that continues to influence their cultures, identities, and politics. Wide-ranging in scope yet complementary in focus, the essays deftly convey the extent to which the French colonial experience in Algeria resonates on both sides of the Mediterranean. Young and established scholars shed light on the linguistic, cultural, and social mechanisms of violence, remembrance, forgetting, fantasy, nostalgia, prejudice, mythmaking, and fractured identity. Addressing the nature of Franco-Algerian relations through such topics as migration, displacement, settler colonialism, racism, and sexuality, these essays provide an important contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and North African history. With renewed public debate surrounding the two countries’ shared past and their interwoven communities today, this volume will be indispensable for anyone with an interest in the relations between Algeria and France and the literature on memory and nostalgia.

Housing the Workers, 1850-1914

Author : Martin J. Daunton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474241263
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Housing the Workers, 1850-1914 written by Martin J. Daunton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, accounts of housing were dominated by the analysis of the problems of slum property at the bottom of the market, and the way in which public housing emerged from attempts to ameliorate the worst conditions, in an apparently inevitable process. This title questions this perception by focussing on the process of development, architectural forms, the pattern of ownership, property management and control, and public policy.

Women and Political Insurgency

Author : D. Barry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374360
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Women and Political Insurgency written by D. Barry and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-03-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `A lucid and wide-ranging survey of the changing role of women in insurgent movements in nineteenth-century France that will be invaluable for those interested in both women's studies and French history' - Pamela M. Pilbeam, Royal Holloway, University of London. This book provides a broad survey of the development of female insurgency in France between 1789 and 1871, and lays particular emphasis on the conflicts of 1830-51. Drawing on unused archival material, Barry demonstrates that a tradition of women's protest evolved from the 1789 Revolution, assuming particular forms associated with the exclusion of females from political and civil rights, and inviting both praise and vilification. The conclusions challenge the view that in nineteenth-century France women retreated altogether from popular movements.

A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library

Author : London Institution. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library written by London Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics in the Marketplace

Author : Katie L. Jarvis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190917113
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Politics in the Marketplace written by Katie L. Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics in the Marketplace integrates politics, economics, and gender to ask how the Dames des Halles invented notions of citizenship through everyday trade during the French Revolution. While analyzing how marketplace actors shaped nascent democracy and capitalism, it challenges the interpretation that revolutionary citizenship was inherently masculine from the outset.

The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

Author : Robert Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art written by Robert Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bodies of Art

Author : Marie Lathers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803229419
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Art written by Marie Lathers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the time-honored myth of the artist creating works of genius in isolation, with nothing but inspiration to guide him, art historians have added the mitigating influences of critics, dealers, and the public. Bodies of Art completes the picture by adding the model. This lively look at atelier politics through the lens of literature focuses in particular on the female model, with special attention to her race, ethnicity, and class. The result is a suggestive account of the rise and fall of the female model in nineteenth-century realism, with a final emphasis on the passage of the model into photography at the turn of the century. This history of the model begins in nineteenth-century Paris, where the artist?model dynamic was regularly debated by writers and where the most important categories of models appear to be Jewish, Italian, and Parisian women. Bodies of Art traces an evolution in the representation of this model in realist and naturalist literary works from her "birth" in Balzac to her "death" in Maupassant, in the process revealing how she played a key role in theories of representation advanced by writers. Throughout the book, Marie Lathers connects the artist's work to the social realities and actual bodies that surround and inhabit the atelier. Her work shows how much the status of the model can tell us about artistic practices during the century of the birth of modernity.

Brave Genius

Author : Sean B. Carroll
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307952347
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Brave Genius written by Sean B. Carroll and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research, Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals. It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary events--of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of creative genius, deep friendship, and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition.

Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Malady

Author : Linda Evi Merians
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813108889
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Malady written by Linda Evi Merians and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in 18th-century France and Britain. Initially regarded as the subject for jokes and boasts of Restoration promiscuity, its prevalence as the century wore on forced people to take it seriously. Linda Merians offers a detailed study of the disease.

The Electric Vehicle

Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412683
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Electric Vehicle written by Gijs Mom and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Engineer-Historian Award from the International History and Heritage Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award given by the Society of Automotive Historians Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car—neither a recent invention nor a historical curiosity—has a story as old as that of the gasoline-powered automobile, and that at one time many in the nascent automobile industry believed battery-powered engines would become the dominant technology. In both Europe and America, electric cars and trucks succeeded in meeting the needs of a wide range of consumers. Before World War II, as many as 30,000 electric cars and more than 10,000 electric trucks plied American roads; European cities were busy with, electrically propelled fire engines, taxis, delivery vans, buses, heavy trucks and private cars. Even so, throughout the century-long history of electric propulsion, the widespread conviction it was an inferior technology remained stubbornly in place, an assumption mirrored in popular and scholarly memory. In The Electric Vehicle, Gijs Mom challenges this view, arguing that at the beginning of the automobile age neither the internal combustion engine nor the battery-powered vehicle enjoyed a clear advantage. He explores the technology and marketing/consumer-ratio faction relationship over four "generations" of electric-vehicle design, with separate chapters on privately owned passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Mom makes comparisons among European countries and between Europe and America. He finds that the electric vehicle offered many advantages, among them greater reliability and control, less noise and pollution. He also argues that a nexus of factors—cultural (underpowered and less rugged, electric cars seemed "feminine" at a time when most car buyers were men), structural (the shortcomings of battery technology at the time), and systemic (the infrastructural problems of changing large numbers of batteries)—ultimately gave an edge to the internal combustion engine. One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation.