Download or read book Le cin ma noir am ricain des ann es Obama written by Régis Dubois and published by LettMotif. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quand on pense au cinéma noir américain des années Obama il nous vient tout de suite à l’esprit des titres comme La Couleur des sentiments , Le Majordome , Selma , Django Unchained ou 12 Years a Slave tous sortis entre 2009 et 2016. Beaucoup de films évoquant l’histoire des Afro-Américains en somme (l’esclavage, le racisme, la ségrégation, la lutte pour les droits civiques). Faut-il y voir une simple coïncidence ou une véritable tendance ? Comment en effet ne pas imaginer que l’élection d’un Noir à la tête d’une nation travaillée depuis toujours par la question raciale n’a pas eu un effet sur la production de films ? Ne parle-t-on pas d’ailleurs communément d’un “cinéma reaganien” pour évoquer la production hollywoodienne des années 80 ( Rocky, Rambo, Top Gun... ) – synonyme de blockbusters musclés, manichéens et conservateurs – alors pourquoi ne pas parler d’un “cinéma obamanien” ? En explorant les grandes tendances de la période, ce livre tentera ainsi de comprendre comment le cinéma noir de ces dernières années a été influencé thématiquement, voire idéologiquement, par la présidence de Barack Obama. Régis Dubois est spécialiste du cinéma afro-américain. Il a notamment publié Images du Noir dans le cinéma américain blanc (L’Harmattan, 1997), Dictionnaire du cinéma afro-américain (Séguier, 2001) et Le Cinéma des Noirs américains entre intégration et contestation (Le Cerf, 2005). Plus récemment, il a signé Une histoire politique du cinéma(Sulliver, 2007), Hollywood, cinéma et idéologie (Sulliver, 2008) et Les Noirs dans le cinéma français : de Joséphine Baker à Omar Sy (LettMotif, 2015).
Download or read book Le cin ma noir am ricain des ann es Obama written by Régis Dubois and published by Lettmotif Editions. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quand on pense au cinéma noir américain des années Obama il nous vient tout de suite à l'esprit des titres comme La Couleur des sentiments, Le Majordome, Selma, Django Unchained ou 12 Years a Slave tous sortis entre 2009 et 2016. Beaucoup de films évoquant l'histoire des Afro-Américains en somme (l'esclavage, le racisme, la ségrégation, la lutte pour les droits civiques). Faut-il y voir une simple coïncidence ou une véritable tendance ? Comment en effet ne pas imaginer que l'élection d'un Noir à la tête d'une nation travaillée depuis toujours par la question raciale n'a pas eu un effet sur la production de films ? Ne parle-t-on pas d'ailleurs communément d'un "cinéma reaganien" pour évoquer la production hollywoodienne des années 80 (Rocky, Rambo, Top Gun...) – synonyme de blockbusters musclés, manichéens et conservateurs – alors pourquoi ne pas parler d'un "cinéma obamanien" ? En explorant les grandes tendances de la période, ce livre tentera ainsi de comprendre comment le cinéma noir de ces dernières années a été influencé thématiquement, voire idéologiquement, par la présidence de Barack Obama.
Download or read book Spike Lee un cin aste controvers written by Régis Dubois and published by LettMotif. This book was released on 2019-07-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Lee, l’enfant terrible du cinéma afro-américain, est depuis ses débuts en 1986 autant connu pour l’originalité de son cinéma que pour ses coups d’éclats médiatiques. Baptisé “le Noir le plus en colère d’Amérique” à l’occasion de la sortie de Malcolm X (1992), il n’a eu de cesse tout au long de sa carrière d’entretenir la polémique. Avec des œuvres engagées comme Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, The Very Black Show ou BlacKkKlansman, mais aussi des films moins controversés tels He Got Game, La 25e Heure ou Inside Man, il aura marqué de son passage la grande histoire du septième art. Et pourtant, à ce jour, aucune monographie française évoquant l’ensemble de son œuvre n’est parue en librairie. Ce livre a ainsi pour but de corriger cet oubli en revenant sur toute l’œuvre du cinéaste pour lui redonner la place qui lui revient au centre de l’historiographie du cinéma américain, avec la secrète intention de rappeler aux plus jeunes combien son rôle de pionnier fut décisif dans l’émergence d’un cinéma noir américain. Régis Dubois est spécialiste du cinéma afro-américain qu’il suit depuis maintenant vingt-cinq ans et auquel il a consacré plusieurs ouvrages, notamment Images du Noir dans le cinéma américain blanc (1980-1995) (L’Harmattan, 1997), Le Cinéma des Noirs américains entre intégration et contestation (Le Cerf/Corlet, 2005) et Le Cinéma noir américain des années Obama (LettMotif, 2017). Préface de Jean-Claude Barny « Le Noir le plus en colère d’Amérique » Les années d’apprentissage 10 Spike Lee n’en fait qu’à sa tête She’s Gotta Have It (1986) & School Daze (1988) « La chose à faire » Do the Right Thing (1989) Nouvelles polémiques Mo’ Better Blues (1990) & Jungle Fever (1991) « Je suis né pour faire ce film » Malcolm X (1992) En mode mineur Crooklyn, Clockers, Girl 6, Get On the Bus, He Got Game Entre succès mainstream et échecs personnels Summer of Sam, Bamboozled, 25th Hour, She Hate Me, Inside Man La traversée du désert Miracle at St. Anna, Red Hook Summer, Oldboy, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Chi-Raq Retour en grâce BlacKkKlansman (2018) Annexes Filmographie, bibliographie, playlist Index
Download or read book The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models Ideas and Images written by Haldor Byrkjeflot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Download or read book Our Town written by Cynthia Carr and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the fabric of Marion, too much ingrained even now in the minds of those who live there. In Our Town journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere. Marion is our town, America’s town, and its legacy is our legacy. Like everyone in Marion, Carr knew the basic details of the lynching even as a child: three black men were arrested for attempted murder and rape, and two of them were hanged in the courthouse square, a fate the third miraculously escaped. Meeting James Cameron–the man who’d survived–led her to examine how the quiet Midwestern town she loved could harbor such dark secrets. Spurred by the realization that, like her, millions of white Americans are intimately connected to this hidden history, Carr began an investigation into the events of that night, racism in Marion, the presence of the Ku Klux Klan–past and present–in Indiana, and her own grandfather’s involvement. She uncovered a pattern of white guilt and indifference, of black anger and fear that are the hallmark of race relations across the country. In a sweeping narrative that takes her from the angry energy of a white supremacist rally to the peaceful fields of Weaver–once an all-black settlement neighboring Marion–in search of the good and the bad in the story of race in America, Carr returns to her roots to seek out the fascinating people and places that have shaped the town. Her intensely compelling account of the Marion lynching and of her own family’s secrets offers a fresh examination of the complex legacy of whiteness in America. Part mystery, part history, part true crime saga, Our Town is a riveting read that lays bare a raw and little-chronicled facet of our national memory and provides a starting point toward reconciliation with the past. On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were dragged from their jail cells in Marion, Indiana, and beaten before a howling mob. Two of them were hanged; by fate the third escaped. A photo taken that night shows the bodies hanging from the tree but focuses on the faces in the crowd—some enraged, some laughing, and some subdued, perhaps already feeling the first pangs of regret. Sixty-three years later, journalist Cynthia Carr began searching the photo for her grandfather’s face.
Download or read book Philosophy in a Time of Terror written by Giovanna Borradori and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.
Download or read book A History of the Chinese Secret Service written by Richard Deacon and published by London : Muller. This book was released on 1974 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Talented Tenth written by Herman Mason and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recounting of the student walkout at the R.R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County in Virginia. This action, Davis v. Board of Education, was one of the cases that led to the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools.
Download or read book Global Neorealism written by Saverio Giovacchini and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Nathaniel Brennan, Luca Caminati, Silvia Carlorosi, Caroline Eades, Saverio Giovacchini, Paula Halperin, Neepa Majumdar, Mariano Mestman, Hamid Naficy, Sada Niang, Masha Salazkina, Sarah Sarzynski, Robert Sklar, and Vito Zagarrio Intellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered neorealism the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the traditional story goes, was an Italian film style born in the second postwar period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugarcoated moving images of fascism. Lasting from 1945 to the early 1950s, neorealism produced world-renowned masterpieces such as Roberto Rossellini's Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City, 1945) and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1947). These films won some of the most prestigious film awards of the immediate postwar period and influenced world cinema. This collection brings together distinguished film scholars and cultural historians to complicate this nation-based approach to the history of neorealism. The traditional story notwithstanding, the meaning and the origins of the term are problematic. What does neorealism really mean, and how Italian is it? Italian filmmakers were wary of using the term and Rossellini preferred "realism." Many filmmakers confessed to having greatly borrowed from other cinemas, including French, Soviet, and American. Divided into three sections, Global Neorealism examines the history of this film style from the 1930s to the 1970s using a global and international perspective. The first section examines the origins of neorealism in the international debate about realist esthetics in the 1930s. The second section discusses how this debate about realism was “Italianized” and coalesced into Italian “neorealism” and explores how critics and film distributors participated in coining the term. Finally, the third section looks at neorealism’s success outside of Italy and examines how film cultures in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States adjusted the style to their national and regional situations.
Download or read book Cultural Memories written by Peter Meusburger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, places, and landscapes of memory have acquired a special significance. The essays in this volume, written by leading anthropologists, geographers, historians, and psychologists, open a range of new interpretations of the formation and development of cultural memories from ancient times to the present day. The volume is divided into five interconnected sections. The first section outlines the theoretical considerations that have shaped recent debates about cultural memory. The second section provides detailed case studies of three key themes: the founding myths of the nation-state, the contestation of national collective memories during periods of civil war, and the oral traditions that move beyond national narrative. The third section examines the role of World War II as a pivotal episode in an emerging European cultural memory. The fourth section focuses on cultural memories in postcolonial contexts beyond Europe. The fifth and final section extends the study of cultural memory back into premodern tribal and nomadic societies.
Download or read book Past Im Perfect Continuous written by Alice Balestrino and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the comprehension of the postmemory of WWII, accounting for a number of different intellectual trajectories that investigate WWII and the Holocaust as paradigms for other traumas within a global and multidirectional context. Indeed, by exceeding the geographical boundaries of nations and states and overcoming contextual specificities, postmemory foregrounds continuous, active, connective, transcultural, and always imperfect representations of violence that engage with the alterity of other histories and other subjects. 75 years after the end of WWII, this volume is primarily concerned with the convergence between postmemory and underexamined aspects of the history and aftermath of WWII, as well as with several sociopolitical anxieties and representational preoccupations. Drawing from different disciplines, the critical and visual works gathered in this volume interrogate the referential power of postmemory, considering its transcultural interplay with various forms, media, frames of reference, conceptual registers, and narrative structures.
Download or read book Black American Cinema written by Manthia Diawara and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Black cinema
Download or read book Barack Obama written by Démosthène-Raphaël Messanga Ombolo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jazz from Detroit written by Mark Stryker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz from Detroit explores the city’s pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker makes Detroit jazz come alive as he draws out significant connections between the players, eras, styles, and Detroit’s distinctive history. Stryker’s story starts in the 1940s and ’50s, when the auto industry created a thriving black working and middle class in Detroit that supported a vibrant nightlife, and exceptional public school music programs and mentors in the community like pianist Barry Harris transformed the city into a jazz juggernaut. This golden age nurtured many legendary musicians—Hank, Thad, and Elvin Jones, Gerald Wilson, Milt Jackson, Yusef Lateef, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, and others. As the city’s fortunes change, Stryker turns his spotlight toward often overlooked but prescient musician-run cooperatives and self-determination groups of the 1960s and ’70s, such as the Strata Corporation and Tribe. In more recent decades, the city’s culture of mentorship, embodied by trumpeter and teacher Marcus Belgrave, ensured that Detroit continued to incubate world-class talent; Belgrave protégés like Geri Allen, Kenny Garrett, Robert Hurst, Regina Carter, Gerald Cleaver, and Karriem Riggins helped define contemporary jazz. The resilience of Detroit’s jazz tradition provides a powerful symbol of the city’s lasting cultural influence. Stryker’s 21 years as an arts reporter and critic at the Detroit Free Press are evident in his vivid storytelling and insightful criticism. Jazz from Detroit will appeal to jazz aficionados, casual fans, and anyone interested in the vibrant and complex history of cultural life in Detroit.
Download or read book Shirley Chisholm written by Lucia Raatma and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2011 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women leaders of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have powerfully influenced the course of major political events and have spearheaded social change on an international scale. Some women were elected to public office and others were appointed to key positions in government. Some were leaders who served in the private sector. All were products of their times and made an indelible mark on those times. Book jacket.
Download or read book Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb written by Veronica Chambers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely picture book biography about Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, who sought the Democratic nomination to be the president of the United States. Shirley Chisholm famously said, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." This dynamic biography illuminates how Chisholm was a doer, an active and vocal participant in our nation's democracy, and a force to be reckoned with. Now young readers will learn about her early years, her time in Congress, her presidential bid and how her actions left a lasting legacy that continues to inspire, uplift, and instruct.
