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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his little-seen early short Affaires publiques and his short treatise Notes on cinematography.. The films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.. The major critical responses to his work, from the adulatory to the dismissive, are summarized and analyzed.. The work includes a full filmography and a critical bibliography.
This book is a collection of 28 essays by one of the most internationally influential Chinese novelists,Yu Hua, who is the most prominent writer in contemporary China. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Hebrew,Japanese, Korean, etc. He is also a columnist for New York Times. It is a review of classic works in the history of literature and music, with in-depth personal interpretations and candid appreciations of masters such as Borges, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Kafka,Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky. As a reader and listener, the writer tries to analyze the mysteries of the narrative in literature and music, explain the techniques and mysteries of creation. As Yu Hua put it, “Music is created by the heart, and writing touches the depths of music. They are affected by each other and point to the broadness of life together.”
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The rise of critical realism in nineteenth-century Russia culminated in 1870 with the formation of the Wanderers, Russia's first independent artistic society. Through depictions of the harsh lives of the peasantry, the fate of political activists, Russian history, landscapes, and portraits of the nation's cultural elite, such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the society became synonymous with dissident sentiments. Yet its members were far from being purveyors of anti-Tsarist propaganda and their canvases reflect also a warm humanity and a fierce pride for such nationalistic themes as Russian myth and legend. Through close readings of single canvases, investigations of major themes and a multi-disciplinary integration of the Wanderers within Russian society, this book gives the first comprehensive analysis of the crucial cultural role played by one of the most successful and genuinely popular schools of art, the legacy of which comprises a fascinating panorama of life and thought in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.
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1940 fand im Moskauer Bolschoj-Theater eine Aufführung statt, die als ein kultureller Höhepunkt des Hitler-Stalin-Pakts gedacht war: Richard Wagners Walküre in der Inszenierung von Sergej Eisenstein. Dank dessen subversiver Kraft wurde daraus kein faschistisch-kommunistisches Stelldichein, sondern ein Ereignis, in dem sich die großen politisch-ästhetischen Konfliktlinien der Moderne abzeichnen. Dieser irrlichternden Begegnung von Wagner und Eisenstein widmet Dieter Thomä einen großen Essay, in dem er jene Konfliktlinien bis in die Gegenwart fortzeichnet. Behandelt wird der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk ebenso wie der Ausgriff auf die politische »Totalität«. Doch findet sich bei Wagner und Eisenstein auch eine zarte Geste zur Rettung des Individuellen: eine kleine Verteidigung des »Mitleids«. So wird aus der historischen Trouvaille ein überraschend aktueller Kommentar zu einem Grundkonflikt der Moderne: dem Verhältnis zwischen Individuum und Allgemeinheit.
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»Der Entschluß steht fest, das KAPITAL nach dem Szenarium von Karl Marx zu verfilmen«, notierte Sergej Eisenstein am 12. Oktober 1927. Eisenstein, der mit Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (1926) die Filmsprache revolutionierte, wollte Marx’ Buch »kinofizieren«. Die Herausforderung, die von einem solchen Werk ausgeht, so glaubte Eisenstein, würde die Filmkunst von Grund auf umrücken. Ihm schwebte die Anwendung völlig neuer, von James Joyce’ Ulysses abgeleiteter Formen vor: »faits divers«, »emotionale Konvolute« und Reihen »dialektischer Bilder«. 80 Jahre später kommentiert Alexander Kluge Eisensteins monumentalen Plan. Auf drei DVDs sammelt er filmische Miniaturen zu Marx’ Theorie, die uns so nah und so fern ist wie die Antike. Gespräche mit Peter Sloterdijk, Dietmar Dath, Oskar Negt, Boris Groys, Rainer Stollmann und anderen montieren ganz unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf Das Kapital. Mit Filmen wie Abschied von Gestern (1966) und seiner Beteiligung an dem Kollektivfilm Deutschland im Herbst (1978) ist Alexander Kluge einer der wichtigsten Vertreter des Neuen deutschen Films. Im April 2008 wurde er beim Deutschen Filmpreis mit dem »Ehrenpreis« für hervorragende Verdienste um den deutschen Film ausgezeichnet.
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Der Band zeigt Bedeutung und Entwicklung der Untersuchungen Barthes' über einen Gegenstand, den man »die Schrift des Sichtbaren« nennen könnte: Fotografie, Kino, Malerei, Theater, Musik. Barthes beschäftigt sich unter anderem mit der Botschaft der Fotografie, der Rhetorik des Bildes, mit Brecht, Diderot und Eisenstein, aber auch mit romantischer Musik, mit Schumann. Bei all diesen Versuchen geht es Roland Barthes vor allem um die »dritte Bedeutung«, jener zwischen entgegenkommendem und stumpfem Sinn oszillierenden Signifikanz.
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Bertolt Brecht interessierte sich früh für das neue Medium Film: »Der Filmsehende liest Erzählungen anders. Aber auch der Erzählungen schreibt, ist seinerseits ein Filmesehender«, schrieb er 1931 in Der Dreigroschenprozeß. Noch im selben Jahr machte er sich gemeinsam mit dem Regisseur Slatan Dudow und dem Komponisten Hanns Eisler an ein eigenes Filmprojekt: Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt? Der Film erzählt die Geschichte der Arbeiterfamilie Bönicke, die während der Weltwirtschaftskrise aus ihrer Wohnung vertrieben wird und in die Gartenkolonie »Kuhle Wampe« im Osten Berlins zieht. Formal setzen Brecht und Dudow dabei auf die Montagetechnik, die in den zwanziger Jahren von Sergej Eisenstein entwickelt worden dar. Unmittelbar nach der Fertigstellung verhinderte die Zensur im März 1932 zunächst die Uraufführung mit der Begründung, die politische Tendenz sei »längst nicht so grob und stark aufgetragen« wie üblich, und genau das mache den Film gefährlich; 1933 verboten die Nationalsozialisten Kuhle Wampe endgültig. Heute gilt Kuhle Wampe als Meilenstein des politischen Kinos.
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Transforming Travel combines stories from leading companies, interviews with pioneers and thinkers, along with thorough analysis of the industry's potential to make lasting, positive change. - A unique collection of case studies and stories of the most successful, inspirational, impactful and innovative travel businesses in the world. - A vital presentation of the latest research and statistics on the positive impacts and potential of transformative, sustainable tourism, - A positive and realistic vision of the scope of tourism to promote sustainable development at a time when travel and interaction with foreign cultures is facing numerous existential challenges. Written in a highly engaging style Transforming Travel presents an urgent argument for transforming tourism so it might reach its potential to promote tolerance, restore communities and regenerate habitats, while providing a vital guide for anyone looking to develop the successful sustainable tourism enterprises and destinations needed to do so.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide is a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-modern society as represented in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy. In his study, suicide is understood in both a literal and spiritual sense as referring to both the actual suicides in their works and to the broader social malaise of spiritual suicide, or despair. In the 19th century Dostoevsky called suicide “the terrible question of our age”. For his part, Percy understood 20th century Western culture as “suicidal” in both its social, political and military behavior and in the deeper sense that its citizenry had suffered an ontological “loss of self” or “deformation” of being. Likewise, Thomas Merton called the 20th century an “age of suicide”.
'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amidst all this, he found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, works now recognised as among the finest ever written. In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves carefully chosen excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to form an illuminating and often surprising whole. The result is a novelistic life that immerses the reader in a grand vista of Dostoevsky's world: from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling halls of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of St Petersburg. Along the way, Christofi relates the stories of the three women whose lives were so deeply intertwined with Dostoevsky's: the consumptive widow Maria; the impetuous Polina who had visions of assassinating the Tsar; and the faithful stenographer Anna, who did so much to secure his literary legacy. Reading between the lines of his fiction, Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written had life - and literary stardom - not intervened. He gives us a new portrait of the artist as never before seen: a shy but devoted lover, an empathetic friend of the people, a loyal brother and friend, and a writer able to penetrate to the very depths of the human soul.
Providing students with an array of original texts spanning from the Bible into the present, Between Truth and Fiction guides the reader through exercises in interpretation and reflection. With each reading chosen to introduce different forms of theological thinking, this volume raises questions about how we read—and how that affects theological thinking and practice. Intentionally blurring the hard distinctions between "truth" and "fiction," the book is divided into genres (with often-surprising examples within): literary theology; fiction; autobiography; lyrics, poetry, and songs; drama; essays and aphorisms; sermons; postcolonial literature; feminist literature; and the postmodern text.Includes excerpts from the works of Augustine of Hippo, Anselm of Canterbury, Karl Barth, Dostoevsky, Ian McEwan, Julian of Norwich, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Meister Eckhart, Graham Greene, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Edwards, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thornton Wilder, Martin Luther King Jr., Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, and Dave Eggers, among others.
Great Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wrote a wonderful novel about guilt, taking responsibility and human weakness. Crimes and punishments is a tribute to that literary genius, in which seven authors discuss some very delicate and very contemporary problems. It could happen to any one of us.
Nīrvaḷari is the fourth novel of Konangi. It comprises 21 chapters inspired by Konangi's spectacular vision of the infinitesimal moments of perennial ancestrality of the Tamils. The novel has resonances with Cilappatikaram, the great epic of Tamil language. Konangi has composed beautiful chapters on Islamic architecture, antique cities and their people, imaginary meetings between Dostoevsky and Van Gogh and several other poetic Odysseys towards surreal landscapes. Neer Valari offers a hermetic and encyclopedic fusion of painting, music, sculpture, architecture, anthropology, literature and culture composed with the musical mythic - poetic prose of Konangi which has enthralled his readers for many decades offering them the surreal dimensions of Tamil Prose.
Director's library K.S. Stanislavsky is located in a separate special storage of the Moscow Art Theater Museum and only the curator, O.A. Radishcheva, had access to it. Researchers most often turn to this library when they know exactly what they want to find there. After the death of Olga Alexandrovna, in search of a sketch for the scenery of K.S. Stanislavsky to the play "Thomas" based on the story of F.M. Dostoevsky "The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants" the author of this book got access to this storage and drew attention to the album in a gray canvas binding with the inscription "Sketches by K.S. Alekseeva ". This album contained a wanted sketch and sketches for the performances of the Society of Literature and Art, created by Stanislavsky himself. The shock from the find was so great that I wanted to understand whether this was the only album. And then a miracle happened! More than ten albums with sketches and layouts of scenery, sketches of costumes and props, drawings from life and searches for makeup!
The Inhabitants of the Curious Cemetery is a panoramic novel which vividly brings to life the worlds of three generations of Russian émigrés in Paris. To recap, the Russian emigration began with the October Revolution and continued apace for two decades, meaning that by the start of the Second World War almost 80,000 Russians had established themselves in France. Paris quickly became the capital of the Russian emigration, not to be replaced by New York until the middle of the century. The novel contains multiple voices, including three first-person protagonists, whose voices start to overlap, to intertwine, and set off unexpected echoes. The novel’s main narrator is the Soviet émigré Viktor Lipatov (not necessarily his real name), a former dissident who spent several years in psychiatric detention, fled to America, and then arrived in Paris at the beginning of 1968, where he found work in the editorial offices of a Russian émigré newspaper. The second first-person narrator is Alexandr Krushchevsky, a doctor who was born to first generation Russian émigrés in Belgium, served as a volunteer in the Belgian army during the Second World War, was captured by the Germans, fled, and then lived in Saint-Ouen in France, where he mixed in French avantgarde art circles, before turning up again in Paris in 1968. The main protagonist of the novel, who brings the diverging stories together, is the multitalented Alfred Morgenstern, also a first-generation Russian émigré who was born in Moscow in 1896 before leaving with his family for Paris in 1906. A doctor by profession, he is also a pianist, an actor, a model, and an obsessive writer. Morgenstern and Krushchevsky are good friends, they are united by several shared experiences, and they share a secret which adds a subtle element of crime-fiction to the novel. The colorful lives of the Russian émigrés are portrayed from the perspectives of these three characters. We learn about the difficulties they have acclimatizing, the traumas inflicted on them by war, their struggle against Communism, and their homesickness. In this world, real-life and fictional characters mingle freely; at the risk of oversimplification one can argue that there are three types of characters in the novel: fictional characters, characters inspired by real-life people, and real-life historical figures. The three main protagonists are examples of the first type, embodying certain general features of the Russian émigrés, but lacking any specific historical counterparts. A whole gallery of historical figures feature in the novel, including Nikolay Berdyaev, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Théodore Fraenkel, Charles de Gaulle, Pavel Milyukov and Boris Poplavsky. It could be said that the city of Paris is the fourth character in the novel. Ivanov makes Paris almost physically tangible, and does so for all three of the historical periods which the novel covers. At the start of the novel, the author gives a captivating description of Paris life, through the words of the character Morgenstern. To provide a flavor of this, I quote at length: ‘Paris whips you on, kicks you up the backside, sprinkles you with rain, splashes you in puddles, plays pranks on you, spits swearwords at you, whispers gossip in your ear, grabs at coat hems and shopfronts, pulls you close, kisses you on both cheeks, fishes cash out of your pocket, waves its hat at you, looks you longingly in the eye, and then embraces you in its dark, satin night.’ (p. 44). Ivanov has gone to great lengths to ensure that all of the historical details are correct, including the physical environment (it’s clear that he has visited all of the novel’s locations), and the historical events. He has taken inspiration from a range of Russian émigré memoires and diaries, including those of Boris Poplavsky, Ivan Bunin, Felix Yusupov, Teffi (Nadezhda Lohvitskaya) and Anna Kashina-Yevreinova. In addition to the richness of historical detail, The Inhabitants of the Curious Cemetery is a homage to the art of the novel. Ivanov has found space for the majority of his literary influences here. There are multiple references to Dickens, in particular The Pickwick Papers to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, while Celine and Joyce interact in intriguing ways, as do Bunin and Nabokov. One can detect the stylistic influence of Mikhail Bulgakov, traces of Cormac McCarthy’s approach to form, as well as the influence of Goncharov’s Oblomov. But the greatest appeal of The Inhabitants of the Curious Cemetery lies in Ivanov’s command of language. No one else writes quite like Ivanov. Ivanov’s writing grabs the reader and pulls her into its embrace, wraps her in multiple narrative strands, leads her through labyrinths, providing intermittent flashes of light and relief, before dragging her back into its depths. The Inhabitants of the Curious Cemetery is Ivanov’s first full-length symphony, a work in which he demonstrates his talents in every literary form, and on every instrument.
In early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teenager Geth Montego is fumbling with the present and uncertain about her future. She only has three friends: her best friend Tovah, who’s been acting weird ever since they started applying to college; Diego, who she wants to ask to prom; and the K-pop band BTS, because the group always seems to be there for her when she needs them (at least in her head). She could use some help now. Geth’s small city becomes one of the first COVID-19 containment zones in the US. As her community is upended by the virus and stirred up by the growing Black Lives Matter protests, Geth faces a choice and a question: Is she willing to risk everything to fight for her beliefs? And if so, what exactly does she believe in? C.J. Farley captures a moment in spring 2020 no teenager will ever forget. It sucks watching the world fall apart. But sometimes you have to start from zero.
Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these stories offer a multiplicity of voices—some sentimental and melodramatic, others rebellious and bold—and capture the predicament of characters who often live on the margins of society. From a spectrum of viewpoints, writing styles, and motifs, the stories included here provide examples of the great richness of Odishan literary culture. In the often shadowy and grim world depicted in this collection, themes of class, poverty, violence, and family are developed. Together they form a critique of social mores and illuminate the difficult lives of the subaltern in Odisha society. The work of these authors contributes to an ongoing dialogue concerning the challenges, hardships, joys, and successes experienced by women around the world. In these provocative explorations of the short-story form, we discover the voices of these rarely heard women. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/1ZT7e56
