Artists and the Avant-garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900

Artists and the Avant-garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900
Author: Patricia Eckert Boyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1998
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The publication consists of chapters on the three most important avant-garde theaters in Paris at that time: the Théâtre libre, the Théâtre d'art and the Théâtre de l'oeuvre. It also includes a checklist of the Atlas Collection at the National Gallery of Art.

Cinéma&Cie 31

Cinéma&Cie 31
Author: AA: VV:
Publisher: Mimesis
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2019-12-05T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 8869772888

Pop music meets the media... This issue is dedicated to a social and cultural phenomenon that we could call the ‘mediatization of pop music’. With a particular focus on the 1960s and 1970s, it is our contention that these two decades significantly shaped our current mediatized culture both in its form and content. Since then, instead of political or confessional organisations, it was popular media and music that offered the contact point between public and private spheres, between the personal and the political, and this shift should be reconsidered as a focal trope in modern culture. We hope to widen the notion of mediatization by highlighting a range of historical processes that have had phenomenological after-effects: the experiential prototypes that were developed during this pivotal period later became persistent paradigms, and paved the way for the mediatized world we still live in.

Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France

Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France
Author: Venita Datta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139498207

In Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France Venita Datta examines representations of fictional and real heroes in the boulevard theater and mass press during the fin de siècle (1880–1914), illuminating the role of gender in the construction of national identity during this formative period of French history. The popularity of the heroic cult at this time was in part the result of defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, as well as a reaction to changing gender roles and collective guilt about the egoism and selfishness of modern consumer culture. The author analyzes representations of historical figures in the theater, focusing on Cyrano de Bergerac, Napoleon and Joan of Arc, and examines the press coverage of heroes and anti-heroes in the Bazar de la Charité fire of 1897 and the Ullmo spy case of 1907.

The Question of Gender

The Question of Gender
Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253223245

A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term—and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference—such as race, class, and sexuality—inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the 21st century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives.

The Politics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine

The Politics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine
Author: Kamal Salhi
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This text analyzes Kateb Yacine's writing throughout his career. It illustrates Yacine's intellectual journal from the literary novel through the conventional forms of drama to the creation of the authentic, popular style of performance that he took to the people. His quest for identity became comprehensible in Nedjma and was constantly being renewed an reborn throughout his works in a way that reflected the changing social conditions of Algeria as it gained independence and sought to establish itself as a nation state. The contrast betweeb pre- and post-Independence Algeria runs through the whole book and helps the reader gain new consistency and evolution of Kateb Yacine's work.