Download or read book Belphegor 1927 written by Arthur Bernède and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partie 1: Le Mystère du Louvre: - La Salle des Dieux Barbares: - Il y a un fantôme au Louvre ! Telle était l'étrange rumeur qui, le matin du 17 mai 1925, circulait dans notre musée national. Partout, dans les vestibules, dans les couloirs, dans les escaliers, on ne voyait que des gens qui s'abordaient, les uns effrayés, les autres incrédules, et s'empressaient de commenter l'étrange et fantastique nouvelle. Dans la salle dite des "David", devant le célèbre tableau, le Sacre de Napoléon, deux gardiens discutaient avec animation. Bientôt, les balayeuses et les frotteurs qui, ce jour là, n'accomplissaient que fort distraitement leur besogne, s'approchaient d'eux, afin d'écouter leur conversation, qui ne pouvait manquer d'être fort intéressante. - Moi, je te dis que c'est un fantôme ! scandait l'un des gardiens. Et tandis que son collègue éclatait de rire et haussait les épaules, il martelait avec un accent de conviction sous lequel perçait un certain émoi: - GAUTRAIS l'a vu !.... Et c'est pas un blagueur ni un poltron !.... Même qu'il est en train de faire son rapport à M le conservateur ! C'était exact. Dans le bureau de ce haut fonctionnaire, Pierre GAUTRAIS, un grand gaillard solide, robuste, aux épaules carrées, à la figure franche et un peu naïve, déclarait à son supérieur, M LAVERGNE, qui, assis devant sa table de travail et flanqué de son adjoint et de son secrétaire, l'écoutait d'un air bienveillant mais plutôt sceptique: - Je l'ai vu comme je vous vois !.... Je me laisserais plutôt couper la tête que de dire le contraire. - Dites moi, GAUTRAIS.... Vous n'aviez pas bu un petit coup de trop ? observait M LAVERGNE. - Oh Monsieur le conservateur sait bien que je ne me grise jamais ! protestait Pierre GAUTRAIS. - Alors, vous avez eu une hallucination. - Oh non, monsieur.... J'étais bien réveillé......................
Download or read book The 9 5mm Vintage Film Encyclopaedia written by Patrick Moules and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in both English and French, The 9.5mm Vintage Film Encyclopaedia provides a single-volume, comprehensive catalogue of all known 9.5mm film releases, including: Films: Comprising 12,460 individual entries, this A-Z reference index provides the main listing for each film and its origin where known, along with additional information including cast and crew, and cross references to other relevant material. People: This index of all known actors and film crew, comprising over 12,000 names, provides a listing which is cross referenced to the main entry for each original film they worked on. Numbers: Pathé-Baby/Pathéscope and other distributors’ catalogue numbers, film length, release dates (where known) and the series in which the films were organised, are set out in detail. With a foreword from eminent film historian and filmmaker, Keith Brownlow, this extensively researched text explains the importance of the 9.5mm film, from its beginnings in the early 1920s to becoming synonymous with Home Cinema throughout Europe. Readers will also find a brief technical explanation on how 9.5mm films were produced, along with relevant images.
Download or read book Distributing Silent Film Serials written by Rudmer Canjels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the international consumption, distribution, and cultural importance of silent film serials in the 1910s and 1920s, Canjels provides an exciting new understanding of the cultural dimension and the cultural transformation and circulation of media forms. Specifically, he demonstrates that the serial film form goes far beyond the well-known American two-reel serial—the cliffhanger. Throughout the book, Canjels focuses on the biggest producers of serials, America, France, and Germany, while imported serials, such as those in the Netherlands, are also examined. This research offers new views on the serial work of well known directors as D.W. Griffith, Abel Gance, Erich von Stroheim, and Fritz Lang, while foregrounding the importance of lesser known directors such as Louis Feuillade or Joe May. In the early twentieth-century, serial productions were constantly undergoing change and were not merely distributed in their original form upon import. As adjusted serials were present in large quantities or confronted different social spaces, nationalistic feelings and views stimulated by the unrest of World War I and the expanding American film industry could be incorporated and attached to the serial form. Serial productions were not only adaptable to local discourses, they could actively stimulate and interact as well, influencing reception and further film production. By examining the distribution, reception, and cultural contexts of American and European serials in various countries, this cross-cultural research makes both local and global observations. Canjels thus offers a highly relevant case study of transnational, transcultural and transmedia relations.
Download or read book Belphegor the Phantom of the Louvre written by Arthur Bernede and published by Hollywood Comics. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sinister, ghostly presence of the mysterious Belphegor is haunting the Louvre, seeking the Treasure of the Kings of France. Against him are pitted the indomitable Chantecoq, the King of the Detectives, and the fearless journalist Jacques Bellegarde. A duel to the death begins between the murderous Phantom of the Louvre and his enemies throughout the City of Lights. Written in 1927 by Arthur Bernede, the author of Judex, this classic of French criminal literature spawned no less than three motion pictures, one television series and one animated show. This new, unabridged translation by J-M. & R. Lofficier also includes a detailed synopsis of the celebrated 1965 remake starring Juliette Greco.
Download or read book Strange Spaces written by André Jansson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain bizarre spaces, where disruption or disarray rule, leave us estranged and 'out of place'. This book examines such spaces, highlighting the emotional and mediated geographies of uncertainty and the state of being 'in-between'; of cognitive displacement, loss, fear, or exhilaration. It expands on why space is sometimes estranging and for whom it is strange. It is the first book to link strangeness and spatial production, as well as empirical explorations of strange spaces within a profound theoretical discussion of 'what is strange about strange spaces' and how they evolve in a modern media age.
Download or read book Claire Denis written by Martine Beugnet and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly controversial (including 'Beau Travail' (2000) and 'Trouble Every Day' (2001)). Beugnet provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider Denis' work, as well as a comprehensive analysis of individual films. She highlights the resonance of Denis' films in relation to ongoing debates about French national identity and culture, and issues of postcolonial identity, alienation and transgression, as well as examining their exploration of the interface between sexuality, desire and sensuality. This is an essential introduction to Denis, and a sophisticated and illuminating study of her work to date.
Download or read book The Letters of T S Eliot written by T. S. Eliot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Eliot's correspondence covers his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, when he married and settled in England. Volume two covers the time period of Eliot's publication of The Hallow Men and his developing ideas about poetry.
Download or read book Belphegor written by Arthur Bernède and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belphegor, a criminal mastermind and hooded maniac, is obsessed with retrieving the lost treasure of the Medicis from its ancient burial place. Only Chantecoq, the 'king of detectives' can hope to unveil the sinister and sadistic figure that nightly haunts the Paris Louvre and its catacombs. And with that unveiling comes one of the most stunning twists. Belphegor was made into a highly successful 1960s serial for French television and it remains one of the key works of early French pulp fiction.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1930 with total page 2754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nabokov Noir written by Luke Parker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career—from the 1920s to the 1940s—in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie palaces, cultural Americanism, and surface culture. Luke Parker argues that Nabokov's engagement with the cinema and the dynamics of mass culture more broadly is an art of exile, understood both as literary poetics and practical strategy. Obsessive and competitive, fascinated and disturbed, Nabokov's Russian-language fiction and essays, written in Berlin, present a compelling rethinking of modernist-era literature's relationship to an unabashedly mass cultural phenomenon. Parker examines how Nabokov's involvement with the cinema as actor, screenwriter, moviegoer, and, above all, chronicler of the cinematized culture of interwar Europe enabled him to flourish as a transnational writer. Nabokov, Parker shows, worked tirelessly to court publishers and film producers for maximum exposure for his fiction across languages, media, and markets. In revealing the story of Nabokov's cinema praxis—his strategic instrumentalization of the movie industry—Nabokov Noir reconstructs the deft response of a modern master to the artificial isolation and shrinking audiences of exile.
Download or read book A History of Modern Criticism 1750 1950 written by René Wellek and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume of René Wellek's monumental history of modern criticism is a comprehensive survey of the main currents of twentieth-century criticism in Western Europe. In this volume, as in the preceding books of the series, Wellek expounds and analyzes the work of the most prominent critics, offering succinct appraisals of his subjects both as individuals and as participants in the broader movements of the century. Contents I. French Criticism, 1900-1950 French Classical Criticism in the Twentieth Century Retrospect: Alain, Rémy de Gourmont The Nouvelle Revue Française: André Gide, Jacques Rivière, Ramón Fernández, Benjamin Crémiuex, Albert Thibaudet Marcel Proust The Catholic Renaissance: Charles Du Bos, Jacques Maritain and Henri Bremond, Paul Claudel Dada and Surrealism The Geneva School: Marcel Raymond, Albert Béguin, Georges Poulet Albert Camus Jean-Paul Sartre Paul Valéry Prospect II. Italian Criticism, 1900-1950 Benedetto Croce The Followers of Croce: Luigi Russo, Francesco Flora, Mario Fubini, Attilio Momigliano The Aestheticians: Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Alfredo Gargiulo Critics concerned with English and American literature: Cesare Pavese, Mario Praz, Emilio Cecchi Italian Marxism: Antonio Gramesci, Giacomo Debenedetti The Catholic Renaissance: Carlo Bo The Close Readers: Renato Serra, Giuseppe De Robertis, Cesare De Lollis, Eugenio Montale III. Spanish Criticism, 1900-1950 Américo Castro Miguel de Unamuno Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo and Ramón Menéndez Pidal Azorín Salvador de Madariaga Jorge Guillén Dámaso Alonso José Ortega y Gasset
Download or read book Socialism of Fools written by Michele Battini and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Socialism of Fools, Michele Battini focuses on the critical moment during the Enlightenment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social anti-Semitism. He recovers the potent anti-Jewish, anticapitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in the European mind and connects it to the atrocities that characterized the Jewish experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the eighteenth century, counter-Enlightenment intellectuals and intransigent Catholic writers singled out Jews for conspiring to exploit self-sustaining markets and the liberal state. These ideas spread among socialist and labor movements in the nineteenth century and intensified during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Anti-Jewish anticapitalism then migrated to the Habsburg Empire with the Christian Social Party; to Germany with the Anti-Semitic Leagues; to France with the nationalist movements; and to Italy, where Revolutionary Syndicalists made anti-Jewish anticapitalism the basis of an alliance with the nationalists. Exemplified best in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous document that "leaked" Jewish plans to conquer the world, the Jewish-conspiracy myth inverts reality and creates a perverse relationship to historical and judicial truth. Isolating the intellectual roots of this phenomenon and its contemporary resonances, Battini shows us why, so many decades after the Holocaust, Jewish people continue to be a powerful political target.
Download or read book Modernist Diaspora written by Richard D. Sonn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before, during, and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris, artistic capital of the world and center of modernist experimentation. Some arrived with prior training from art academies in Kraków, Vilna, and Vitebsk; others came armed only with hope and a few memorized phrases in French. They had little Jewish tradition in painting and sculpture to draw on, yet despite these obstacles, these young Jews produced the greatest efflorescence of art in the long history of the Jewish people. The paintings of Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, and Emmanuel Mané-Katz, the sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz, Ossip Zadkine, Chana Orloff, and works by many other artists now grace the world's museums. As the École de Paris was the most cosmopolitan artistic movement the world had seen, the left-bank neighborhood of Montparnasse became a meeting place for diverse cultures. How did the tolerant, bohemian atmosphere of Montparnasse encourage an international style of art in an era of bellicose nationalism, not to mention racism and antisemitism? How did immigrants not only absorb but profoundly influence a culture? This book examines how the clash of cultures produced genius.
Download or read book Belphegor written by Arthur Bernede and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait: I LA SALLE DES DIEUX BARBARES - Il y a un fantôme au Louvre ! Telle était l'étrange rumeur qui, le matin du 17 mai 1925, circulait dans notre musée national. Partout, dans les vestibules, dans les couloirs, dans les escaliers, on ne voyait que des gens qui s'abordaient, les uns effrayés, les autres incrédules, et s'empressaient de commenter l'étrange et fantastique nouvelle. Dans la salle dite des « David », devant le célèbre tableau, le Sacre de Napoléon, deux gardiens discutaient avec animation. Bientôt, les balayeuses et les frotteurs qui, ce jour-là, n'accomplissaient que fort distraitement leur besogne, s'approchaient d'eux, afin d'écouter leur conversation, qui ne pouvait manquer d'être fort intéressante. - Moi, je te dis que c'est un fantôme ! scandait l'un des gardiens. Et tandis que son collègue éclatait de rire et haussait les épaules, il martelait avec un accent de conviction sous lequel perçait un certain émoi : - Gautrais l'a vu !... Et c'est pas un blagueur ni un poltron !... Même qu'il est en train de faire son rapport à M. le conservateur ! C'était exact. Dans le bureau de ce haut fonctionnaire, Pierre Gautrais, un grand gaillard solide, robuste, aux épaules carrées, à la figure franche et un peu naïve, déclarait à son supérieur, M. Lavergne, qui, assis devant sa table de travail et flanqué de son adjoint et de son secrétaire, l'écoutait d'un air bienveillant mais plutôt sceptique : - Je l'ai vu comme je vous vois !... Je me laisserais plutôt couper la tête que de dire le contraire. - Dites-moi, Gautrais... Vous n'aviez pas bu un petit coup de trop ? observait M. Lavergne. - Oh ! Monsieur le conservateur sait bien que je ne me grise jamais ! protestait Pierre Gautrais. - Alors, vous avez eu une hallucination. - Oh ! non, monsieur... J'étais bien réveillé, bien maître de moi. Je suis un ancien soldat... et je puis dire, sans me vanter, que je n'ai jamais eu peur, même lorsque, à Verdun, les marmites me tombaient sur la tête dru comme grêle... Eh bien ! je n'hésite pas à vous avouer que, rien que de penser à ce que j'ai vu la nuit dernière, dans la salle des Dieux barbares... cela me fait courir un frisson dans le dos et dresser mes cheveux sur ma tête ! - Quelle heure était-il quand ce phénomène s'est produit ? interrogeait le conservateur-adjoint. - Une heure du matin, monsieur Rabusson, répliquait le gardien. J'étais en train de faire ma ronde dans les salles du rez-de-chaussée qui donnent sur le bord de l'eau, lorsque, tout à coup, en arrivant dans la salle des Dieux barbares, j'aperçois une forme humaine qui, enveloppée d'un suaire noir et coiffée d'une sorte de capuchon, me tournait le dos et se tenait debout auprès de la statue de Belphégor...Arthur Bernède, né à Redon (Ille-et-Vilaine) le 5 janvier 1871 et mort à Paris le 20 mars 1937, est un romancier populaire français. Auteur très prolifique, il a publié près de 200 romans d'aventures et d'histoire et créé plusieurs centaines de personnages romanesques, dont certains, devenus très célèbres, tels que Belphégor, Judex et Mandrin, ont effacé leur créateur. Il a également mis en scène Vidocq, inspiré par les exploits de ce chef de la Sûreté haut en couleur. Il est également connu sous les noms de plume de Jean de la Périgne et de Roland d'Albret.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of French Cinema written by Dayna Oscherwitz and published by Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. This book was released on 2007 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinématographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumière's La Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumière factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges Méliès, Alice Guy, and Charles Pathé. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world's best directors-Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Louis Malle-and actors-Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou. The Historical Dictionary of French Cinema covers the history of French film from the silent era to the present in a concise and up to date volume detailing the development of French cinema and major theoretical and cultural issues related to it. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, photographs, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on many of the major actors, directors, films, movements, producers, and studios associated with French cinema. Going beyond mere biographical information, entries also discuss the impact and significance of each individual, film, movement, or studio included. This detailed, scholarly analysis of the development of film in France is useful to both the novice and the expert alike.
Download or read book Silent Mystery and Detective Movies written by Ken Wlaschin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The silent film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning to theaters week after week. Icons such as Douglas Fairbanks, Laurel and Hardy, Lon Chaney and Harry Houdini were among those who graced the dark and shadowy screen. This reference guide to silent films with mystery and detective content lists more than 1,500 titles in one of entertainment's most popular and enduring genres. While most of the films examined are from North America, mystery films from around the world are included.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library written by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
