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Introduction: rethinking French cinema
No full textBook synopsis: The French Cinema Book offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. This revised, updated and expanded new edition contains contributions from thirty-six leading commentators on French cinema from around the world.\ud
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Michael Temple and Michael Witt assemble a broad range of approaches to the study and appreciation of French cinema:\ud
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· PEOPLE: Who are the men and women who have made French cinema happen?\ud
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· BUSINESS: What is the industrial culture in which French cinema has evolved?\ud
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· TECHNOLOGY: To what extent have technological factors determined the course of French cinema?\ud
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· FORMS: How can we study the diversity of film forms practiced across French cinema, and how have the formal ‘languages’ of film changed over time?\ud
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· REPRESENTATIONS: What have French films shown us of France, its society, its concerns, and the changing lives of its citizens?\ud
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· SPECTATORS: How has the audience’s experience of film-going changed in France over time?\ud
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· DEBATES: How has cinema been represented and discussed in French culture?\ud
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Whether you are a student, teacher, specialist or simply a fan of French cinema, this book is essential reading
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Emmanuel Mounier and the awakening of Black Africa
No full textEmmanuel Mounier, Director of the Catholic review Esprit, was a pioneering participant in criticising French colonial activities. The debates of the 1940s were strongly framed by France’s ‘mission to civilise’ its colonies, which was supported by universal humanist aspirations but was also criticised as masking policies of exploitation and oppression. The resulting tensions are well demonstrated by Emmanuel Mounier’s book L’Éveil de l’Afrique noire, published after a visit to several areas of French West Africa in the spring of 1947, at a crucial moment in France’s relations with its colonies. This article focuses on the components published in Esprit, Combat, and Présence africaine, which outlined the positive roles that France could play in the region, but warned against the dangers if opportunities were missed, and recognised the particular difficulties confronting the rising African elites. A closer examination of the discursive strategies he deployed shows that Mounier’s frame of reference remained within the paternalist paradigm of republican humanism, and that he saw France’s role as a duty to guide the development of Africa. However, in the myths and metaphors he adopted a more radical vision can be identified, which expressed an underlying anti-colonialism
“Proven patriots”: the French diplomatic corps, 1789-1799
No full textThis study analyzes a hitherto unexamined group, the French diplomatic corps during the Revolution (1789 to 1799), and focuses on the question of loyalty and conscience. For some diplomats choice was an illusion as their status often determined their fate. Some supported the king and continued to do so in spite of the high cost, often creatively sabotaging the Revolution. Others put nation, as they defined it, above king. Because the definition of loyalty constantly shifted the corps, like the army and the bureaucracy, was periodically purged. Those who had worked for or been sympathetic to the old regime or those who had allied with a certain political faction came under scrutiny. The turmoil in the diplomatic corps not only had international repercussions but also reflects larger societal trends, such as the attack on the aristocracy and the displacement of one elite by another. The French diplomatic corps was thus emblematic of many issues surrounding the revolutionary struggle of this decade.Publisher PD
1890-1930: hello cinema!
No full textBook synopsis: The French Cinema Book offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. This revised, updated and expanded new edition contains contributions from thirty-six leading commentators on French cinema from around the world.\ud
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Michael Temple and Michael Witt assemble a broad range of approaches to the study and appreciation of French cinema:\ud
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· PEOPLE: Who are the men and women who have made French cinema happen?\ud
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· BUSINESS: What is the industrial culture in which French cinema has evolved?\ud
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· TECHNOLOGY: To what extent have technological factors determined the course of French cinema?\ud
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· FORMS: How can we study the diversity of film forms practiced across French cinema, and how have the formal ‘languages’ of film changed over time?\ud
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· REPRESENTATIONS: What have French films shown us of France, its society, its concerns, and the changing lives of its citizens?\ud
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· SPECTATORS: How has the audience’s experience of film-going changed in France over time?\ud
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· DEBATES: How has cinema been represented and discussed in French culture?\ud
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Whether you are a student, teacher, specialist or simply a fan of French cinema, this book is essential reading
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Tom Springer
No full textAuthor Tom Springer is interviewed about his writing career and his newest book "Looking for hickories". Springer talks about his career following after earning an Environmental Journalism degree from Michigan State University. He calls his genre "creative non-fiction" and explains how he weaves his memories into his books about life in rural and wild Michigan. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Springer is interviewed by Librarian Michael Rodriguez
1930-1960: classicism and conflict
No full textBook synopsis: The French Cinema Book offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. This revised, updated and expanded new edition contains contributions from thirty-six leading commentators on French cinema from around the world.\ud
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Michael Temple and Michael Witt assemble a broad range of approaches to the study and appreciation of French cinema:\ud
\ud
· PEOPLE: Who are the men and women who have made French cinema happen?\ud
\ud
· BUSINESS: What is the industrial culture in which French cinema has evolved?\ud
\ud
· TECHNOLOGY: To what extent have technological factors determined the course of French cinema?\ud
\ud
· FORMS: How can we study the diversity of film forms practiced across French cinema, and how have the formal ‘languages’ of film changed over time?\ud
\ud
· REPRESENTATIONS: What have French films shown us of France, its society, its concerns, and the changing lives of its citizens?\ud
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· SPECTATORS: How has the audience’s experience of film-going changed in France over time?\ud
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· DEBATES: How has cinema been represented and discussed in French culture?\ud
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Whether you are a student, teacher, specialist or simply a fan of French cinema, this book is essential reading
1960-2004: a new world
No full textBook synopsis: The French Cinema Book offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. This revised, updated and expanded new edition contains contributions from thirty-six leading commentators on French cinema from around the world.\ud
\ud
Michael Temple and Michael Witt assemble a broad range of approaches to the study and appreciation of French cinema:\ud
\ud
· PEOPLE: Who are the men and women who have made French cinema happen?\ud
\ud
· BUSINESS: What is the industrial culture in which French cinema has evolved?\ud
\ud
· TECHNOLOGY: To what extent have technological factors determined the course of French cinema?\ud
\ud
· FORMS: How can we study the diversity of film forms practiced across French cinema, and how have the formal ‘languages’ of film changed over time?\ud
\ud
· REPRESENTATIONS: What have French films shown us of France, its society, its concerns, and the changing lives of its citizens?\ud
\ud
· SPECTATORS: How has the audience’s experience of film-going changed in France over time?\ud
\ud
· DEBATES: How has cinema been represented and discussed in French culture?\ud
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Whether you are a student, teacher, specialist or simply a fan of French cinema, this book is essential reading
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
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