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Handbook of French Popular Culture
Authors: Pierre L. Horn
Description: Throughout the world, there has been much scholarly and general interest in French popular culture, but very little has been written on the subject in English. The authors of this book address that lack in a series of highly readable and well-documented essays describing French life styles, attitudes, and entertainments as well as the writers and performers currently favored by the French public. Several chapters explore French tastes in popular literature and other reading matter, including comics, cartoons, mystery and spy fiction, newspapers and magazines, and science fiction. Film, popular music, radio, and television are also discussed in detail, and influences from other cultures--particularly American imports--are assessed. The remaining essays examine French sports, the use of leisure time, the French style of eating and drinking, and relations between men and women and their attitudes toward romantic love. Each chapter provides up-to-date historical and bibliographic information that will enable the reader to pursue subjects of particular interest. Written by an international group of specialists, this handbook offers the benefits of broad coverage, a variety of viewpoints, and solid scholarship.
Langue: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Categories: Social Science
Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics
Authors: Philippe Mather ,Sylvain Rheault
Description: French science-fiction (SF) is as old as the French language. Cyrano de Bergerac wrote about a trip to the moon that was published back in 1657, as did Jules Verne in 1865, this time using hard, scientific facts. The first movie showing a trip to the moon was made by Georges Méliès in 1902. In the comics’ format, Hergé had Tintin walk on the moon in 1954, 15 years before Neil Armstrong. These are just a few of the many unique French contributions to SF that rightly deserve to be better known. One of the purposes of this collection is to introduce French SF to an English-speaking audience. Rediscovering French Science Fiction... first revisits proto science-fiction from authors like Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, before delving into contemporary science-fiction works from authors such as René Barjavel and Jacques Spitz. A contribution from preeminent SF author Élisabeth Vonarburg, from Québec, helps to understand the constraints and advantages of writing SF in French. A third section is devoted to French SF in movies and graphic novels, media where French creators have been recognized worldwide. This collection explores many aspects of French SF, including the genre’s deep roots in popular culture, the influence of key authors on its historical development, and the form and function of science and fantasy, as well as the impact of films and graphic novels on the public perception of the genre’s nature.
Langue: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Categories: Fiction
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Authors: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Description: Includes Part 1A: Books
Langue: en
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Categories: Copyright
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction
Authors: Gerry Canavan ,Eric Carl Link
Description: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
Langue: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Categories: Literary Criticism
Le roman policier
Authors:
Description: Ce numéro consacré à l'espace du roman policier rassemble des articles qui montrent que du récit d'énigme au polar contemporain l'évocation des lieux fictionnels est diverse. Entre le brouillard inquiétant du Londres de Conan Doyle et les lumières esthétisantes du Montréal nocturne de Bouthillette, entre les rues pittoresques du Paris de Simenon et les sites grandioses de la Normandie lupinienne, la représentation de l'espace dans le récit policier ne se réduit pas à des stéréotypes.
Langue: fr
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Authors: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: American literature
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
Authors:
Description: The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).
Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: Copyright
Contemporary French Science Fiction (1950-1980) : a Literature of Crisis
Authors: Vivian V. Lehmann
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Langue: en
Publisher:
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Das Buch
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Langue: de
Publisher:
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Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
Authors: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Description: The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).
Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: Copyright
Trésors du roman-policier
Authors: Jacques Bisceglia
Description: Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Langue: fr
Publisher: FeniXX
Categories: Reference
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
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Langue: en
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Categories: Union catalogs
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Authors: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Description: Includes index.
Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: American drama
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
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Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: American literature
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Authors: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Description:
Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: Copyright
Victor, de la Brigade mondaine
Authors: Maurice Leblanc
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Langue: fr
Publisher:
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The National Union Catalog, 1958-1962
Authors: Library of Congress
Description: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: Library catalogs
Romanic Review
Authors: Henry Alfred Todd
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Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: Electronic journals
Monographic Series
Authors: Library of Congress
Description:
Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: Monographic series
Library of Congress Catalogs
Authors: Library of Congress
Description:
Langue: en
Publisher:
Categories: Monographic series