Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900
Author/editor: Una McIlvenna
Year published: 2022
Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in…
André Malraux and Art: An Intellectual Revolution
Author/editor: Derek Allan
Year published: 2021
This study provides a step by step explanation of André Malraux's theory of art. Drawing on his major works, such as The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods, it examines key topics such as the nature of artistic creation, the psychology of our response to art, the birth of the…
Jacques Audiard
Author/editor: Gemma King
Year published: 2021
Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard's films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation. Jacques Audiard is the first book on the cinema of one of the most important French directors working today. It…
The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul
Author/editor: Leslie Barnes
Year published: 2021
Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the…
Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
Author/editor: Bert Peeters
Year published: 2019
All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn’t mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body…
Writing the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women's Fiction 1789–1815
Author/editor: Christie Margrave
Year published: 2019
Women novelists were among the most popular authors of the First Republic and First Empire, yet they are frequently overlooked in favour of their canonical male counterparts. Their penchant for sentimental novels has led some later critics to take their writing at face value as apolitical and…
Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800
Author/editor: Merridee L. Bailey, Tania M. Colwell, Julie Hotchin
Year published: 2018
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women’s working experiences, and by adopting new…
Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema
Author/editor: Gemma King
Year published: 2017
In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language. From rival lingua francas such as English to socio-politically marginalised languages such as Arabic or Kurdish, multilingual…
Sounds of liberty: Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914
Author/editor: Kate Bowan, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2017
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in…
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past
Author/editor: Robert Wellington
Year published: 2015
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would…