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Book The Diamond Guide for the Stranger in Paris

Download or read book The Diamond Guide for the Stranger in Paris written by Adolphe Laurent Joanne and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paris and the Clich   of History

Download or read book Paris and the Clich of History written by Catherine E. Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book turns a compelling new lens on thinking about the history of Paris and photography. The invention of photography changed how history could be written. But the now commonplace assumptions--that photographs capture fragments of lost time or present emotional gateways to the past--that structure today's understandings did not emerge whole cloth in 1839. Focusing on one of photography's birthplaces, Paris and the Cliché of History tells the story of how photographs came to be imagined as documents of the past. Author Catherine E. Clark analyzes photography's effects on historical interpretation by examining the formation of Paris's first photo archives at the Musée Carnavalet and the city's municipal library, their use in illustrated history books and historical exhibitions and reconstructions such as the 1951 celebration of Paris's 2000th birthday, and the public's contribution to the historical record in amateur photo contests. Despite the photograph's growing importance in these forums, it did not simply replace older forms of illustration, visual documentation, or written text. Photos worked in complex and shifting relation to other types of pictures as photographers, popular historians, and publishers built on the traditions and iconography of painting and engraving in order to both document the past scientifically and objectively and to reconstruct it romantically. In doing so, they not only influenced how Parisians thought about the city's past and how they pictured it; they also ensured that these images shaped how Parisians lived their own lives--especially in deeply charged moments such as the Liberation after World War II. This history of picturing Paris does not simply reflect the city's history: it is Parisian history.

Book Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book France

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book France written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Chat

Download or read book Book Chat written by William George Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Class List

Download or read book Class List written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parisian Fields

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  • Author : Michael Sheringham
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780948462856
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Parisian Fields written by Michael Sheringham and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no world city has so many resonances, on so many levels, as Paris. Cafe society, demi-monde, the intellectual life, film-makers and writers... Paris has fragmented socially, sexually, intellectually and linguistically into many fields. Parisian Fields sets out to investigate some of these. The writers investigate how Paris has been both seen and shaped by tourist guides; how its topography has been represented and allegorized by film-makers like Godard, Clair, Vigo and Renoir; how the city has responded to "new" Parisians - for example Afro-American musicians and dancers such as Josephine Baker - and to previously marginalized Parisians - gays and women. Literary analysis, film, social and gender theory, perspectives on urbanism; here are many provocative and innovative views of the open field of Paris, which will appeal to anyone interested in French cultural and literary studies - or just in the City of Light herself. With essays by Roger Clark, Nicholas Hewitt, Jon Kear, Tom Conley, Michael Sheringham, Alex Hughes, Adrian Rifkin, Belinda Jack, Verena Andermatt Conley and Marc Augé.

Book Yiddish Paris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Underwood
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-01
  • ISBN : 0253059801
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Yiddish Paris written by Nick Underwood and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Western Europe and how they presented that nation to themselves and to others in France. In this meticulously researched and first full-length study of interwar Yiddish culture in France, author Nicholas Underwood argues that the emergence of a Yiddish Paris was depended on "culture makers," mostly left-wing Jews from Socialist and Communist backgrounds who created cultural and scholarly organizations and institutions, including the French branch of YIVO (a research institution focused on East European Jews), theater troupes, choruses, and a pavilion at the Paris World's Fair of 1937. Yiddish Paris examines how these left-wing Yiddish-speaking Jews insisted that even in France, a country known for demanding the assimilation of immigrant and minority groups, they could remain a distinct group, part of a transnational Yiddish-speaking Jewish nation. Yet, in the process, they in fact created a French-inflected version of Jewish diaspora nationalism, finding allies among French intellectuals, largely on the left.

Book Spectacular Realities

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  • Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0520221680
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Spectacular Realities written by Vanessa R. Schwartz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting, innovative, and significant work. The author points to how the crowd experience transcended class and gender divisions and was transformed from acts of collective violence into acts of collective consumption."—Michael B. Miller, author of Shanghai on the Métro

Book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classified List

Download or read book Classified List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewish Volunteers  the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War

Download or read book Jewish Volunteers the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War written by Gerben Zaagsma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, focusing particularly on the establishment of the Naftali Botwin Company, a Jewish military unit that was created in the Polish Dombrowski Brigade. Gerben Zaagsma analyses the symbolic meaning of the participation of Jewish volunteers and the Botwin Company both during and after the civil war. He puts this participation in the broader context of Jewish involvement in the left and Jewish/non-Jewish relations in the communist movement and beyond. To this end, the book examines representations of Jewish volunteers in the Parisian Yiddish press (both communist and non-communist). In addition, it analyses the various ways in which Jewish volunteers and the Botwin Company have been commemorated after WWII, tracing how discourses about Jewish volunteers became decisively shaped by post-Holocaust debates on Jewish responses to fascism and Nazism, and discusses claims that Jewish volunteers can be seen as 'the first Jews to resist Hitler with arms'.

Book Public Opinion

Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Download or read book Encyclopedia of French Film Directors written by Philippe Rège and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema has been long associated with France, dating back to 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumi_re screened their works, the first public viewing of films anywhere. Early silent pioneers Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy BlachZ and others followed in the footsteps of the Lumi_re brothers and the tradition of important filmmaking continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895. From undisputed masters to obscure one-timers, nearly 3,000 directors are cited here, including at least 200 filmmakers not mentioned in similar books published in France. Each director's entry contains a brief biographical summary, including dates and places of birth and death; information on the individual's education and professional training; and other pertinent details, such as real names (when the filmmaker uses a pseudonym). The entries also provide complete filmographies, including credits for feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television work. Some of the most important names in the history of film can be found in this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age_Jean Renoir and RenZ Clair_to French New Wave artists such as Fran_ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.