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Honour (DVD)
Paddy Considine, Aiysha Hart, William Ruane, Nikesh Patel, Ben Bishop, …
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Paddy Considine stars in this British thriller in which a young
woman's family arrange for her to be honour killed. When
British-Pakistani Londoner Mona (Aiysha Hart) decides to run away
with her disapproved lover Tanvir (Nikesh Patel), her family are so
ashamed by her actions that they hire a bounty hunter (Considine)
to track her down and kill her. Aware of the potential consequences
of their decision, Mona and Tanvir strive to maintain a low
profile. Will Mona be able to evade death while being targeted by
her potential killer?
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All in Good Time (DVD)
Amara Karan, Reece Ritchie, Meera Syal, Arsher Ali, Harish Patel, …
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British comedy adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his stage comedy
'Rafta, Rafta'. Set in Bolton, the film stars Amara Karan and Reece
Ritchie as young newlyweds Vina and Atul, for whom married life is
proving far from straightforward. What with his interfering parents
(Harish Patel and Meera Syal), the childish pranks of his brother,
nosy neighbours and a community that thrives on gossip, Atul
becomes so woefully inhibited by the whole situation that his
beautiful virgin bride looks set to remain just that, as a
consummation of their union becomes nothing short of an
impossibility.
There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive source material, including diaries, poems, legal accounts and journalism. By concentrating the importance of the city and varied meeting places such as parks, river walks, bathing places, the street, bars and even churches, the contributors explore the extent to which gay space existed, the degree of social collectiveness felt by those who used this space and their individual histories.
There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they
have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A
History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history
of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to
the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer
experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco,
Paris, Lisbon and Moscow.
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive
source material, including diaries, poems, legal accounts and
journalism. By concentrating the importance of the city and varied
meeting places such as parks, river walks, bathing places, the
street, bars and even churches, the contributors explore the extent
to which gay space existed, the degree of social collectiveness
felt by those who used this space and their individual histories.
Of the great European institutions of the Old Regime, the Catholic
Church alone survived into the modern world. The Church that
emerged from the period of revolutionary upheaval, which began in
1789, and from the long process of economic and social
transformation characteristic of the nineteenth century, was very
different from the great baroque Church that developed following
the Counter-Reformation. These studies of the Church in France,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germane, Austria, Hungary and Poland on the
eve of an era of revolutionary change assess the still intimate
relationship between religion and society within the traditional
European social order of the eighteenth century. The essays
emphasize social function rather than theological controversy, and
examine issues such as the recruitment and role of the clergy, the
place of the Church in education and poor relief', the importance
of popular religion, and the evangelization of a largely illiterate
population by the religious orders.
Originally published in 1987. David Higgs's Nobles in
Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism
provides a history of the nobility against the backdrop of changing
French political conditions following the French Revolution. Since
Jean Juares, the influential historian of the French Revolution,
many writers have argued that the French Revolution marked the
political triumph of a capitalist bourgeoisie over a landed
aristocracy. However, beginning with Alfred Cobban, some historians
began to question this account by focusing on the continued
presence of the nobility in France. This book contributes to this
body of work by giving a panorama of the French nobility and three
detailed case studies of noble families; the author then concludes
with an examination of the nobility in political life, the church,
and the private sphere. Professor Higgs finds that French nobles
changed with their century, but given their small numbers in the
national population, they maintained a grossly disproportionate
presence in politics, in culture, among the wealthiest landowners,
and in economic life.
Originally published in 1973. Ultraroyalism in Toulouse examines in
detail the origins of ultraroyal hostility to the social and
political changes rendered by the French Revolution. France has
produced a variety of theories of decline, corresponding to the
nation's changing political fortunes in Europe and the world. The
Revolution represented another, at least temporary, victory of the
state apparatus over local community and privilege, and it
stimulated the longing, apparent in all parts of the country after
the fall of Napoleon, for a return to older forms of society and
government that were essentially provincial and rural. The
stevedores of Marseille, the fisherman of Brittany, and the
peasants of the Auvergne saw plainly enough that the Revolution had
not solved the problems of poverty and economic distress. Like the
nobles, the ex-parlementarians, and the descendants of local
oligarchies, they were hostile to the ascendancy of Paris. On all
levels of French society were those who selectively remembered the
best of the Old Regime, dwelt on the most obvious failures of the
Revolution's religious and welfare policies, and blamed facile
utilitarians who did not understand tradition for the destruction
of the pre-1789 institutions. This book examines in depth the form
that ultraroyalism took in Toulouse.
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