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The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia

Federman, Rachel

Wilson, Emma

Lowe, Charlotte

History

HarperCollins, Publishers

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.

Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous

Self-Help

Clarendon Press

Atom Egoyan (Contemporary Film Directors)

The films of Canadian-Armenian director 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, 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. Egoyan's own comments on his films thread throughout Wilson's analyses, and the book features a recent interview with the director.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Illinois Press

The films of Canadian-Armenian director 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, 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. Egoyan's own comments on his films thread throughout Wilson's analyses, and the book features a recent interview with the director.

Alain Resnais, director of Hiroshima Mon Amour and L'Année Derniere à Marienbad, has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating new 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.

Alain Resnais (French Film Directors)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Manchester University Press

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' 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' films. A passionate and partial defence of Resnais' 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.

Alain Resnais (French Film Directors Series)

French Cinema Since 1950 brings together modern scholarship of the most widely viewed and studied works of the period including classic films such as Truffauts The 400 Blows, Resnais Hiroshima Mon Amour, and works by Godard as well as critical previews of some of the most recent French films up to 1998. It covers relevant directors and their writings, and provides a comprehensive overview of different types of cinema, from thrillers and love stories to historical drama and autobiographies.

French Cinema Since 1950

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Céline Sciamma: Portraits (Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers)

Céline 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.\nFrom the Back Cover\nCéline 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. Emma Wilson is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College

Edinburgh University Press

Did you know: One of the more obvious typos in the U.S. Constitution is the misspelling of the word Pensylvania” above the names of the signatories; or that in 682 A.D. the drought was so bad that the Saxons in the south of England eventually ate their children! Organized from A to Z, there are more than 1,000 historical trivia tidbits for you to peruse. Start off with little known facts about Abraham Lincoln, and continue until you’ve discovered hidden gems about Yosemite National Park, Zeus, and more! The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia is a treasure trove for the inquiring mind.

The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia: A Startling Collection of Historical Trivia You'll Never Need to Know

Puzzles & Games

Skyhorse

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The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia

Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous

Atom Egoyan (Contemporary Film Directors)

Atom Egoyan (Contemporary Film Directors)

Alain Resnais (French Film Directors)

Alain Resnais (French Film Directors Series)

French Cinema Since 1950

Céline Sciamma: Portraits (Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers)

Céline Sciamma: Portraits (Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers)

The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia: A Startling Collection of Historical Trivia You'll Never Need to Know