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Maney - Legenda - Legenda Special Lecture Series
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Legenda Special Lecture Series
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Forming Couples: Godard's Contempt
by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit
With Contempt ('Le mepris'), dating from 1963, the French writer and director Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) made his first and much-debated big-budget feature, whose all-star cast included Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Parlance and Fritz Lang. The central theme of the film is the contempt a wife, Camille, suddenly feels for her husband, Paul, bringing to an end the intimate relationship the couple enjoyed. The authors examine the ...
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A Self Administered Poison: The System and Function of Soviet Censorship
by Arlen Blyum
Censorship of the media has been a constant element in Russian cultural life throughout the ages. In the Soviet period it was institutionalized and systematized with unprecedented thoroughness and sophistication, acquiring not only proscriptive but ...
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Le Partage de la Parole
by Luce Irigaray
Luce Irigray's Zaharoff lecture is the latest episode in an extraordinary intellectual adventure begun with Speculum. De L'autre femme (1974) and continued in Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un (1977) and Ethique de al difference sexuelle ...
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History, Painting and Narrative: Delacroix's `Moments'
by Peter Brooks
The narrative of historical events was of prime political and aesthetic importance to the generation that came to the fore in France in 1830. The choice of the right moment to illustrate historical events was a continuing subject of concern for Delacroix, as the brief explanations he wrote for the salon and catalogue demonstrate. He wants spectators to understand the chosen moment as part of a continuing narrative but also as the moment most ...
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Proust: questions d'identite
by Julia Kristeva
The author brilliantly pursues her readings of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Proust is presented here as the first modern writer to revel the sado-masochistic tendancies inherent in national, religious and sexual identities. His enigmatic characters and, above all, the Dreyfus Affair form the basis of Kristeva's exploration of these compelling questions. The material was originally delivered as the Zaharoff Lecture at the Taylor ...
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