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Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema - Borders and Encounters (Hardcover): Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Emma Wilson,... Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema - Borders and Encounters (Hardcover)
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Emma Wilson, Sarah Wright
R4,241 Discovery Miles 42 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The child has existed in cinema since the Lumiere Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.

Chantal Akerman - Afterlives (Hardcover): Emma Wilson, Marion Schmid Chantal Akerman - Afterlives (Hardcover)
Emma Wilson, Marion Schmid
R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lucidity - Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Hardcover): Ian James, Emma Wilson Lucidity - Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Hardcover)
Ian James, Emma Wilson
R2,221 R1,856 Discovery Miles 18 560 Save R365 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical thought and reason, to questions of literary and poetic form, and of photographic and filmic contemplation. Ranging from engagements with early modern writing through to more recent material the contributions focus in particular on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French prose and poetry, the field which has been the predominant focus of Alison Finch's critical writing. They are written as tributes to the distinctively lucid insights of her work and to the breadth and clarity of its intellectual engagement.

Alain Resnais (Paperback, New): Emma Wilson Alain Resnais (Paperback, New)
Emma Wilson
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Alain Resnais, director of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (1959) and "L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad" (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt. Exploring questions of the time-image, of trauma, of the senses, this volume sets Resnais's films in the context of important current debates in film theory, and provides a concise account of critical discussions of his work in France and beyond. Yet it also offers a highly personal and detailed engagement with individual images and scenes in Resnais's films. A passionate and partial defence of Resnais's work, old and new, this volume stands apart in its attention to the more tangible and moving pleasures of his films, their pathos, rigour and visual beauty.

Translation and the Arts in Modern France (Hardcover): Sonya Stephens Translation and the Arts in Modern France (Hardcover)
Sonya Stephens; Contributions by Sonya Stephens, Marshall C. Olds, Heather Williams, L. Cassandra Hamrick, …
R1,903 R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Save R270 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries, and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural permeability with representational exchange. In doing so, the book exposes the extent to which moving between media and codes—the very process of translation and transposition—is a defining aspect of creativity across time, space, and disciplines.

Translation and the Arts in Modern France (Paperback): Sonya Stephens Translation and the Arts in Modern France (Paperback)
Sonya Stephens; Contributions by Sonya Stephens, Marshall C. Olds, Heather Williams, L. Cassandra Hamrick, …
R868 R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Save R71 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries, and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural permeability with representational exchange. In doing so, the book exposes the extent to which moving between media and codes-the very process of translation and transposition-is a defining aspect of creativity across time, space, and disciplines.

Lucidity - Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Paperback): Ian James, Emma Wilson Lucidity - Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Paperback)
Ian James, Emma Wilson
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical thought and reason, to questions of literary and poetic form, and of photographic and filmic contemplation. Ranging from engagements with early modern writing through to more recent material the contributions focus in particular on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French prose and poetry, the field which has been the predominant focus of Alison Finch's critical writing. They are written as tributes to the distinctively lucid insights of her work and to the breadth and clarity of its intellectual engagement.

Morphology and Syntax: Analyzing Languages (Hardcover): Emma Wilson Morphology and Syntax: Analyzing Languages (Hardcover)
Emma Wilson
R3,511 R3,168 Discovery Miles 31 680 Save R343 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics (Hardcover): Emma Wilson Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics (Hardcover)
Emma Wilson
R3,565 R3,219 Discovery Miles 32 190 Save R346 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cambridge History of French Literature (Hardcover): William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Wilson The Cambridge History of French Literature (Hardcover)
William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Wilson
R6,023 Discovery Miles 60 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessinees, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives. Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries, visual culture, alterity, sexuality, religion, politics, autobiography and testimony. The result is a collection that, despite the wide variety of topics and perspectives, presents a unified view of the richness of French-speaking cultures. This History gives support to the idea that French writing will continue to prosper in the twenty-first century as it adapts, adds to, and refocuses the rich legacy of its past.

Memory and Survival - The French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Paperback): Emma Wilson Memory and Survival - The French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Paperback)
Emma Wilson
R1,291 Discovery Miles 12 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness. This study is the first to offer specific focus on Kies'lowski's last films, on his French-language cinema and its place within the broader context of French film-making. Engaging with Deleuze's discussions of the time-image, and recent work in trauma theory, Emma Wilson offers radical insights into the innovation in Kies'lowski's explorations of memory, temporality, loss and desire. A charged defence of Kies'lowski's work, Memory and Survival offers new readings of this cinema of blind chance and fleeting beauty.

Celine Sciamma - Portraits (Hardcover): Emma Wilson Celine Sciamma - Portraits (Hardcover)
Emma Wilson
R3,384 Discovery Miles 33 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Celine Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 and intervened directly in debates about the female gaze, sexuality and specifically how to look at and make a portrait of young women. In her approach to female, non-binary and queer identities, she has focused on the need for agency, binding this imperative into her aesthetic choices and modes of filmmaking. This is the first book-length study of Sciamma's films, focusing on the relationship of her work to the visual arts and exploring the relevance of feminist theory to her unique perspective.

Cinema's Missing Children (Paperback): Emma Wilson Cinema's Missing Children (Paperback)
Emma Wilson
R575 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R321 (56%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. The specter of the child at risk from abduction, abuse, or illness, conjures questions about traumatic loss, protection and the family, nostalgia and childhood innocence. Emma Wilson argues that such questions increasingly return in the work of contemporary filmmakers. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski's "Three Colours: Blue," Atom Egoyan's "Exotica," Todd Solondz's "Happiness," Jane Campion's "The Portrait of a Lad"y, Lars von Trier's "The Kingdom," and Almodovar's "All About My Mother." Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror.

Cinema's Missing Children (Hardcover): Emma Wilson Cinema's Missing Children (Hardcover)
Emma Wilson
R1,936 Discovery Miles 19 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. The specter of the child at risk from abduction, abuse, or illness, conjures questions about traumatic loss, protection and the family, nostalgia and childhood innocence. Emma Wilson argues that such questions increasingly return in the work of contemporary filmmakers. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski's "Three Colours: Blue," Atom Egoyan's "Exotica," Todd Solondz's "Happiness," Jane Campion's "The Portrait of a Lad"y, Lars von Trier's "The Kingdom," and Almodovar's "All About My Mother." Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror.

Sexuality and the Reading Encounter - Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous (Hardcover, New): Emma Wilson Sexuality and the Reading Encounter - Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous (Hardcover, New)
Emma Wilson
R2,733 Discovery Miles 27 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the Reading Encounter Emma Wilson offers a new account of the intimate relations between reading, identity, and identification. Interweaving theoretical debate with analysis of texts by Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous, her study reveals the formative potential and transferential pleasures of the reading encounter. Drawing on an understanding of identity as performative, alienated and fictitious, this study argues that the fictions we read act as mirrors and decoys displaying seductive images of intelligible sexual identities. The texts chosen for discussion here draw attention to the strategies by which identity is constructed textually. They work thus to frame the reading encounter and to highlight its formative power. In analysis of these texts, this study works to cut across the axes of homosexuality and heterosexuality, offering an alternative focus on the interdependence of identity and fantasy.

Bleeding Heart and Rue (Hardcover): Emma Wilson Emery Bleeding Heart and Rue (Hardcover)
Emma Wilson Emery
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bleeding Heart and Rue (Paperback): Emma Wilson Emery Bleeding Heart and Rue (Paperback)
Emma Wilson Emery
R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crushed Flower - Eight Women and their Stories about Japanese forced Prostitution (Paperback): Emma Wilson Crushed Flower - Eight Women and their Stories about Japanese forced Prostitution (Paperback)
Emma Wilson; Marguerite Hamer-Monod de Froideville
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chantal Akerman - Afterlives (Paperback): Emma Wilson, Marion Schmid Chantal Akerman - Afterlives (Paperback)
Emma Wilson, Marion Schmid
R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What. (Paperback): Emma Wilson What. (Paperback)
Emma Wilson
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Camille Harris and The Stolen Treasure (Paperback): Emma Wilson Camille Harris and The Stolen Treasure (Paperback)
Emma Wilson
R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Atom Egoyan (Paperback): Emma Wilson Atom Egoyan (Paperback)
Emma Wilson
R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The films of Atom Egoyan immerse the viewer in a world of lush sensuality, melancholia, and brooding obsession. From his earliest films Next of Kin and Family Viewing, to his coruscating Exotica and recent projects such as Where the Truth Lies, Egoyan has paid infinite attention to narrative intricacy and psychological complexity. Traumatic loss and its management through ritual return as themes in his films as he explores personal scenarios of mourning and broader issues of genocide, exile, and postmemory, in particular in relation to his own Armenian heritage. In this study, Emma Wilson closely analyzes the range of Egoyan's films and their visual textures, emotional control, and perverse beauty. Offering a full-scale chronological overview of Egoyan's work on films up to and including Where the Truth Lies, Wilson shows the persistence and development of certain structures and themes in Egoyan's cinema: questions of exile and nostalgia, trauma and healing, the family and sexuality. While drawing on ideas about intercultural cinema, Wilson also sets Egoyan's films in the context of contemporary Canadian cinema and European art-house cinema. Egoyan's own comments on his films thread throughout Wilson's analyses, and the book features a recent interview with the director.

Celine Sciamma - Portraits (Paperback): Emma Wilson Celine Sciamma - Portraits (Paperback)
Emma Wilson
R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Celine Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 and intervened directly in debates about the female gaze, sexuality and specifically how to look at and make a portrait of young women. In her approach to female, non-binary and queer identities, she has focused on the need for agency, binding this imperative into her aesthetic choices and modes of filmmaking. This is the first book-length study of Sciamma's films, focusing on the relationship of her work to the visual arts and exploring the relevance of feminist theory to her unique perspective.

The Reclining Nude - Agnes Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin (Hardcover): Emma Wilson The Reclining Nude - Agnes Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin (Hardcover)
Emma Wilson
R4,052 Discovery Miles 40 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agnes Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan Goldin, return to the paintings of Titian, Velazquez, Goya, Courbet, and others, re-imagining, and re-purposing, their images of female beauty, display, (auto)eroticism, and intimacy. This book, a sensuous evocation of these feminist works, claims a female-identified pleasure in looking. The artists explored align images of repose and sensuality with other images of horizontality and proneness, of strong emotional content, images of erotic involvement, of vulnerability, of bodily contortion, of listlessness, grief, and depression. The reclining nude is for all three artists a starting point for a reflection on the relation of film, projections, and still photography, to painting, and a sustained re-imagining of the meanings conjured through serial returns to a particular pose. This book claims that the image of the reclining nude is compelling, for female-identified artists - and for all allied in feeling and picturing femininity - in the sensitive, ethically adventurous, politically complex feminist issues it engages. The reclining nude is an image of passivity, of submission, of hedonism. It allows thought about passivity as pleasure, about depression and grief figured posturally, about indolence as a form of resistance and anarchy. Through this image, female-identified artists have claimed freedom to offer new focus on these extremes of emotion. They are re-imagining horizontality.

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema - Borders and Encounters (Paperback): Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Emma Wilson,... Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema - Borders and Encounters (Paperback)
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Emma Wilson, Sarah Wright
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The child has existed in cinema since the Lumiere Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.

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