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  • Cultural Intelligence

    The Global Mindset Series

    by Thorsten Meyer, Emma Wilson, Norman Kohlers ...
    Series series The Global Mindset Series
    Cultural Intelligence: Navigating the Global WorkplaceIn today's interconnected world, success in business increasingly depends on our ability to navigate diverse cultural landscapes. "Cultural Intelligence: Navigating the Global Workplace" is your essential guide to thriving in the complex, multicultural environment of modern business.Written by a team of experts with decades of combined ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atom Egoyan

    by Emma Wilson ...
    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    The films of Atom Egoyan immerse the viewer in a world of lush sensuality, melancholia, and brooding obsession. From his earliest films Next of Kin and Family Viewing, to his coruscating Exotica and recent projects such as Where the Truth Lies, Egoyan has paid infinite attention to narrative intricacy and psychological complexity. Traumatic loss and its management through ritual return as themes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of French Literature

    Edited by William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Wilson ...
    From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessinées, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema

    Borders and Encounters

    The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Lucidity

    Essays in Honour of Alison Finch

    Edited by Ian James, Emma Wilson ...
    Series series Legenda
    This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical thought and reason, to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Memory and Survival the French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski

    by Emma Wilson ...
    "Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness. This study is the first to offer specific focus on Kies'lowski's last films, on his French-language cinema and its place within the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Translation and the Arts in Modern France

    by Sonya Stephens, Marshall C. Olds, Heather Williams, L. Cassandra Hamrick, Emma Wilson, Michael John Tilby, Barbara Wright, Wendelin Guentner, Robert D. Lethbridge, Juliana Starr0, Janet L. Beizer1, Mary Ann Caws2, Clive Scott3, Catherine Bernard4 ...
    Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Proust at the Movies

    by Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of time are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Marcel Proust in Context

    Edited by Adam Watt ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, Á la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Mise en Scène and Film Style

    From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art

    by A. Martin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scène and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Art of the Text

    Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media

    by Susan Harrow ...
    Series series Studies in Visual Culture
    The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes through which writers think and readers respond visually and, in essays by researchers in literature, screen and visual studies, the volume explores the visuality of the literary and non-literary text, with a sustained focus on French material of the later ... Read more

    $43.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular

    Figurative Invention In Cinema

    Translated by Ted Fendt ...
    by Nicole Brenez ...
    Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes – especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD