Sad Clowns and Pale Pierrots
Author: Louisa E. Jones
Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : French Forum
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
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Pierrot-Watteau
Author: Louisa E. Jones
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9783878089483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPierrots on the Stage of Desire
Author: Robert F. Storey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1400854822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Pierrot and his world
Author: Marika Takanishi Knowles
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-01-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1526174073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trousers, is a ubiquitous figure in French art and culture. This richly illustrated book offers an account of Pierrot’s recurrence in painting, printmaking, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Antoine Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France. As a visual type, Pierrot thrives at the intersection of theatrical and marketplace practices. From Watteau’s Pierrot (c. 1720) and Édouard Manet’s The Old Musician (1862) to Nadar and Adrien Tournachon’s Pierrot the Photographer (1855) and the landmark film Children of Paradise (1945), Pierrot has given artists a medium through which to explore the marketplace as a form for both social life and creative practice. Simultaneously a human figure and a theatrical mask, Pierrot elicits artistic reflection on the representation of personality in the marketplace.
The Satiric Decade
Author: Amy Wiese Forbes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780739129456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Where do democratic political practices originate? This issue has long concerned republics, but few historians have studied the process by which people learn the skills of rights-based government. In this illuminating history, Amy Wiese Forbes addresses these origins by analyzing how republicanism took shape through the political satire that flooded French newspapers, theaters, courtrooms, and even academic life in 1830. Forbes shows that satire was the chief source of the critical spirit of republicanism that erupted in the 1840s and sustained the Republic in the 1870s and argues against the notion that satire had no lasting political impact. This book will speak to historians of French politics, republicanism, popular culture, the July Monarchy, satire and political humor, class and gender formation, and legal history." --Book Jacket.
Performing Gender and Comedy
Author: Shannon Hengen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 113438565X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. This lively volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteronormative forces in Western culture. The contributors investigate the effects of gender, sexuality, sexual identity, race, class and nationality on humor and comedic performance. Each chapter, distinct in its voice and content, addresses how particular historical periods seem to affect who laughs at what, why, and with what consequences. This book not only spans a broad range of historical and literary periods, it also engages in a critical conversation with past and present thinkers to articulate the political, cultural and social effects of comedy.
Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film
Author: Donald Crafton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1400860717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical moment when it changed from traditional caricature to the modern comic strip. This profusely illustrated book provides not only a wealth of information on Cohl's life but also an analysis of his contribution to the development of the animation film in both France and the United States and an interpretation of how the new genre fit into the historical shift from a "primitive" to a "classical" cinema. "Beautiful in look and design, with stunning reproductions from films and newspapers, Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film offers a biography of a figure who virtually created the European art of animation... In its theory and history, the book is one of the most important contributions to [the field of animated film]. But [it] is central for film study per se, offering a fresh, exciting look at the complicated world of early cinema."--Dana Polan, Film Quarterly Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Tristan Corbière and the Poetics of Irony
Author: Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-06-22
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0199295883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a study of the 19th-century French poet, Tristan Corbière. Using close textual readings from Les Amours jaunes, the only collection published in Corbière's lifetime, it examines his self-contradictory style. Corbière's use of irony is shown to be a means of exploring the doubts of modern man and the spiritual void of commodity culture.
Historical Geographies of Anarchism
Author: Federico Ferretti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1315307545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geography. It explores the historical geography of anarchism by examining its expression in a series of distinct geographical contexts and its development over time. The book explores the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their spa
Theatre and State in France, 1760-1905
Author: Frederick William John Hemmings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-02-25
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0521450888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelations between theatre and state were seldom more fraught in France than in this period. F. W. J. Hemmings traces the vicissitudes of this perennial conflict.
