Traveling in French Cinema

Traveling in French Cinema
Author: Sylvie Blum-Reid
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137553545

Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the escape, nomadic wandering, interior voyages, the unlikely travel, rituals, pilgrimages, migrants' narratives and emergencies, women's travel, and healing narratives.

A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence
Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2010-05-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0307755495

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

Film Lover's Paris

Film Lover's Paris
Author: Barbara Boespflug
Publisher: Editions du Chêne
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Motion picture locations
ISBN: 9782812308413

Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, address by address, visit the City of Lights via 101 cafés, hôtels, boutiques, galleries and theatres that have served as backgrounds to our favourite movies.

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing
Author: Robert Clarke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108548717

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after colonialism in its various guises. The Companion is organized into three parts. Part I, 'Departures', addresses key theoretical issues, topics, and themes. Part II, 'Performances', examines a range of conventional and emerging travel performances and styles in postcolonial travel writing. Part III, 'Peripheries' continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.

Virtual Voyages

Virtual Voyages
Author: Jeffrey Ruoff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006-01-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822337133

DIVThe different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present./div

Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France

Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France
Author: Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2024-01-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1648898114

‘Impressions from Paris’ studies the contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris during the Interwar Years, from the 1920s to 1940. The “Roaring Twenties” constituted years of experimentation and freedom to test new techniques and lifestyles at a time affected by serious political changes leading to World War II. Their trajectories have left traces that can be mapped out, studied, and addressed today, a hundred years later. The volume revisits their experiences through various lenses that include art history, gender, fashion, literary analysis, psychology, philosophy, as well as film and food. The volume revisits the artistic, literary, and journalistic contributions of women worldwide, including France, as they flocked to Paris from the 1920s to 1940. The overall principle lies in the inclusion of female painters, visual artists, and writers from diverse international and national backgrounds. Scholars who participate in the volume explore the possibilities presented in a modern literary and artistic history while building on previous scholarship. Two seminal books and a documentary film inspire this project: Shari Benstock’s ‘Women of the Left Bank. Paris 1900-1940’ (Texas UP 1986) and Andrea Weiss’s ‘Paris was a woman. Portraits from the Left Bank’ (HarperSanFrancisco 1995), which in turn produced an eponymous film (Greta Schiller/Andrea Weiss 1996). These works highlight the community of women artists, editors and writers during the interwar years in Paris. There is scholarship in the area, although most of it is scattered in single monographs, crossing various genres, and various languages, from (recent) graphic novels, to fiction, biographical studies, cultural histories as well as scholarly artistic and literary studies.

French-language Road Cinema

French-language Road Cinema
Author: Michael Gott
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 074869868X

Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of 'New Europe' more evident than in French-language cinema.

French Cinema

French Cinema
Author: R�mi Fournier Lanzoni
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501303074

"An all-encompassing history of French motion pictures and cinematographic trends chronologically from 1895 to the present"--