Download or read book A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau s Indiscretions written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau s Indiscretions written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau's "Indiscretions," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau s Indiscretions written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau's "Indiscretions," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Infernal Machine with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau, which is a sometimes comical, often tragic play. The author revisits the Ancient myth of Oedipus, parodying some parts, including references to psychoanalysis and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and highlighting the inescapable quality of the bitter fate awaiting the protagonists. The play was successful and has enjoyed many performances since its writing, although it is not Cocteau's most famous work. Find out everything you need to know about The Infernal Machine in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book Scandal Parade written by Neal Oxenhandler and published by New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell Jean Cocteau that I adore him, the only person for whom Myth opens its gates, and from which he returns bronzed as from the seaside," wrote the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Cocteau's work has inspired this same degree of admiration in many people, but until now the "mystery" he insists upon has defied critics of his novels, plays and poems. In this first book-length analysis in English of one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time, Neal Oxenhandler explores that mystery, appropriately using the theater as the focus of his study. All the major Cocteau plays, certain of the minor ones, and a selection of the films are covered in this book. Mr. Oxenhandler's narration of the action of the plays, which contributes to the critical themes he develops, is so skillful that the reader need not have read the plays themselves. First setting forth the cultural and historical background of Cocteau's work, Oxenhandler shows, for the first time, the relation of Cocteau to Expressionism. He goes on to take up the matter of Cocteau's style, prefiguring a theme which the rest of the book develops: Cocteau's use of ambiguity. In the main body of the book, the author breaks down Cocteau's mystery into various aspects. There is the theme of persecution--Cocteau's characters are running away from something. There is what the author calls "a kind of moral failure," which he analyzes in terms of the Sartrian theory of "engagement"; Cocteau's characters are unable to become involved in the world around them. The author's final evaluation of Cocteau rests on the theory of a literature of negation which expresses value by a denial of value and in which anguish of one form or another is a substitute for choice. He sees Cocteau as "one of the great creators of negative literature; and perhaps in his sense of honesty and the authenticity of his struggle he has given us the true tragedy of our age."--Adapted from book jacket.
Download or read book Les Parents Terribles written by Jean Cocteau and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portrait of a bourgeois French family in sexual disarray ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by James S. Williams and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating Cocteau’s career and his fascinating personal life on equal terms, James Williams offers here a groundbreaking analysis that sets them both within highly revealing historical and artistic contexts.
Download or read book dith Piaf written by David Looseley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
Download or read book Paris Sex Underground written by Gabriella Glut and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czech-born photographer Jacques Biederer relocated to Paris, France in 1908, and was followed by his brother Charles a few years later. Their photographic studio, Studio Biederer, specialised in underground and taboo images of sexual fetishes, lesbianism, flagellation, and other erotic subjects. As well as publishing these images as clandestine prints under the name Éditions Ostra, the Biederers also produced a number of fetish sex films for secret projection. Paris Sex Underground collects 60 duotone images originally produced by the Biederer brothers, covering the full range of their extraordinary and ground-breaking work, work which paved the way for later SM pioneers such as New York's Irving Klaw.
Download or read book Les Six written by Robert Shapiro and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absorbing, comprehensive story of an absolutely unique experiment in classical music, involving many key figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements Les Six were a group of talented composers who came together in a unique collaboration that has never been matched in classical music, and here their remarkable story is told for the first time. A musical experiment originally conceived by Erik Satie and then built upon by Jean Cocteau, Les Six were also born out of the shock of the German invasion of France in 1914—an avant-garde riposte to German romanticism and Wagnerism. Les Six were all—and still are—respected in music circles, but under the aegis of Cocteau, they found themselves moving among a whole new milieu: the likes of Picasso, René Clair, Blaise Cendrars, and Maurice Chevalier all appear in the story. But the story of Les Six goes on long after the heyday of Bohemian Paris—the group never officially disbanded and it was only in the last 20 years that the last member died; moreover, their spouses, descendents, and associates are still active, ensuring that the remarkable legacy of this unique group survives.
Download or read book Complete Catalog of Plays Musicals written by Dramatic Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queer Composition of America s Sound written by Nadine Hubbs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification—especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality—in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.
Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.
Download or read book BRIDESHEAD REVISITED THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Altering Eye written by Robert Phillip Kolker and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Altering Eye covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, the author develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figures as Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, the Brazilian director Glauber Rocha, and the work of major Cuban filmmakers. Kolker's book has become a much quoted classic in the field of film studies providing essential reading for anybody interested in understanding the history of European and international cinema. This new and revised edition includes a substantive new Preface by the author and an updated Bibliography.
Download or read book Cocteau written by André Fraigneau and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern French Theatre from Giraudoux to Beckett written by Jacques Guicharnaud and published by New Haven, Yale U. P. This book was released on 1961 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is not intended to be a systematic study of contemporary French theatre. [...] The following chapters deal primarily with those playwrights who have proved to be or show promise of becoming first rate and describe in general terms teh dramatic universe of each"--From preface.
