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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan ervine”
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  • French Sports Films

    Visions of Masculinity

    by Jonathan Ervine ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Examining French sports films from a cinematic and socio-cultural perspective, this book takes a close look at the characteristics that separate French sports films from Hollywood sports films and sports films produced in other countries and asks what those characteristics can tell us about wider French culture and society.Focusing in particular on depictions of masculinity in French sports films ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Cinema and the Republic

    Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France

    by Jonathan Ervine ...
    Series Book 1 - French and Francophone Studies
    This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues. It begins by examining how these groups are conceived of within France's Republican political model before analysing films that focus on four key issues. Firstly, it will assess representations of undocumented migrants known as ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Not Just a Souvenir

    Edited by Johanne Sloan, Rhona Richman Kenneally ...
    Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural design as well as for cultural exchange, intended to enhance global understanding and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • National Performance

    Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion

    by Erin Hurley ...
    In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • La Haine

    French Film Guide

    by Ginette Vincendeau ...
    Series series Ciné-File French Film Guides
    "La Haine" is a cult classic with cinema audiences, recently re-released and available on dvd. Ginette Vincendeau is top authority internationally on French cinema, who writes (eg "Sight and Sound") and broadcasts (eg "Front Row Radio 4") on it regularly. It is hugely enjoyable, exciting book written with great panache and accessibility. Released in 1995, "La Haine" is the black and white ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Cinema of Agnès Varda

    Resistance and Eclecticism

    by Delphine Benezet ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Amélie

    French Film Guide

    by Isabelle Vanderschelden ...
    Series series Ciné-File French Film Guides
    "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" was the surprise boxoffice success of 2001, with nine million spectators in France, and more than 30 million worldwide. The film turned Audrey Tautou into an international star, in her iconic role as Amelie, a naive French Parisian who devotes herself to mending the lives of the people around her. Shot on location in Paris, the film combines poetic and magical ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Denys Arcand's Le Declin de l'empire americain and Les Invasions barbares

    by Andrê Loiselle ...
    The release of Denys Arcand's Le Déclin de l'empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire) in 1986 marked a major turning point in Quebec cinema. It was the first Québécois film that enjoyed huge critical and commercial success at home and abroad. Arcand's tragicomedy about eight intellectuals gathered around a dinner table relating sexy anecdotes became the top-grossing film of all time ... Read more

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  • Canadian Film

    Perspectives on Canadian Culture

    by David Clandfield ...
    Canadian Film is a historical overview of film in both English and French Canada, from its early use to encourage immigration and, in Quebec, to promote traditional fidelities, to its struggles to project a uniquely Canadian identity and experience. All major modes of film are discussed—the documentary tradition from the NFBs wartime production to the award winners of the eighties, fictional film ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Brutal Intimacy

    Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema

    by Tim Palmer ...
    Series series Wesleyan Film
    Brutal Intimacy is the first book to explore the fascinating films of contemporary France, ranging from mainstream genre spectaculars to arthouse experiments, and from wildly popular hits to films that deliberately alienate the viewer. Twenty-first-century France is a major source of international cinema—diverse and dynamic, embattled yet prosperous—a national cinema offering something for ... Read more

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  • Studies in French Cinema

    UK perspectives, 19852010

    Edited by Will Higbee, Sarah Leahy ...
    Will Higbee is a senior lecturer in film studies and co-director of the Centre for Research in Film Studies at University of Exeter. He is the author of Matthieu Kassovitz.Sarah Leahy is a senior lecturer in French and film at Newcastle University. She is the author of Casque d'or.Will Higbee and Sarah Leahy are associate editors of Studies in French Cinema. ... Read more

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  • The Tour De France, 1903-2003

    A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values

    Edited by Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD