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...Philip Watts Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Philip Watts CAMUS AND FILM Compared with other writers of his generation, Camus had relatively little to say about the movies. Even though he was close to the actress Maria Casares, even though he began working...

... with a blatantly antihistorical sequence that one French critic3 called "jubilatoire": the spectacular killing of Hitler, Goebbels, and other Nazi leaders, carried out mostly by Jews, in a French art-house movie theater in June 1944. Some viewers waxed quite indignant at this counterfactual endingone French...

... suddenly becomes a movie about hair, more precisely about "fringes." Barthes goes on to add that the "king-pin of the film" [artisan principal du film] is neither the scriptwriter nor the director but the hairdresser. The hair in Julius Caesar tells us all we need to know about the rules of verisimilitude...

..., literary critic, movie viewer, historian of literature, and reader of all kinds of texts-scholarly, literary, and otherwise. All of these were activities in which he excelled and which left a lasting and powerful impact on countless students, colleagues, and readers. Phil Watts received his BA in 1982 from...

... entire corpus for examples that illustrate how the novelist's interest in and passion for the cinema nourish his writing. At the same time, she argues that Simon's "fascination" for film must be considered within the context of his personal experience with the movie-making business. Though the German...

... a screening of A propos de Nice at the Theatre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris. Whether by design or not, it echoed a 1914 article in which his father, the journalist Miguel Almereyda Vigo, had described movie theaters as sites of awareness rather than distraction: "Imagine what such movie theaters could transmit...

... before mass warfare, aerial bombardments, and foreign occupation. Movie adaptations of plays and novels, in English, French, and, in the late fifties, Russian, delighted the imagination of the public. David Lean’s Great Expectations and its haunting, dramatic beginning, Laurence Olivier’s dignified...

... in the French army. I felt condemned to a wasted year—until I realized that Heidelberg, which looked like a movie set for The Student Prince , had something delicious about it—something sensuous, something that invited thinking and reading. It was, after all, a university town. I loved walking the rose-red...

... into a sentence or two to fully render their twist or flavor to a passage, and so they become-to borrow the title of a recent movie-lost in translation. It has been suggested that insofar as "incrustations of literary culture" (those little imbedded, referential nuggets of historical or other significance...

... than a dozen movie theaters operating in the city by 1901, only four years after the arrival in the city of the new technology (18–20). Two of the earliest extant actualities shot by Barcelona director Fructuós Gelabert— Procesión de las hijas de María de la iglesia parroquial de Sants...

... an experience and exploration of time can he understand the "essence" of the world and realize the full potential of literature. Naturally, cinema's reliance on spatial imagery as its primary 1. See Marion Schmid and Martine Beugnet, Proust at the Movies (Burlington, Ver- amont: Ashgate, 2004), as well as Peter...

...) just gathered up and lifted i think it might have been a movie, but i’m not sure because the road forks here. it may be all the boredom what put her in that state? in touch with what would come to pass. but on this january day (gray—paris—1978), she didn’t know...

..., and fascism in the myth-making process relating to Romy Schneider and her last movie, La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982) which was revived in 1999 in a retrograde TV screening. Cohen, for his part, examines the concept of history and Franco-German historiography by comparing Alexandre Kojeve's "immobilization...

..., some feeling, some book I d just read or movie I d just seen ­I would have loved to be quickly in touch with him (without using the phone, however, which I found alienating b­ ecause it brought him into an abrupt and illusory proximity). But thanks to the avoidance of e-m­ ail and telephone, we had...

... and Sande Cohen, finally, lead up to the intricacies of postmodernism in cinema and historiography. Zimnik seeks to disentangle the complex mix of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, feminism, and fascism in the myth-making process relating to Romy Schneider and her last movie, La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982) which...

... Caputo's "Literary Cineastes: The Italian Novel and the Cinema," though it is more a suggestion than a persuasive premise: "[ ] the cinema has always been afflicted by the jealousy of the written text: it wants to 'write If the writer's gift to the movie market is "a kind of Faustian bargain," Caputo's...

... watching Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in his Parisian apartment—from which he will soon be evicted. He spends his alcohol-fueled days scrutinizing the scenes in the movies, seeking moments of what he baldly calls truth . The first sentence reads: “À cette époque, j’étais fou.” Asked about...

...Ann Jefferson Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Female Friendship as a Literary Fact Ann Jefferson Female Friendship as a Literary Fact The Bechdel Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule, is a simple test which names...

.... It is an attempt to figure out what Barthes wrote about cinema and why. What, if anything, is left for us today in Barthes' writings on movies? As I read responses to Barthes from the 1970s and 1980s, especially responses from American and British critics, I am overwhelmed at the amount of time expended in trying...

... and the motives behind it are familiar to movie audiences. A man and his mistress conspire to kill the man's wife so that they can live freely off of her wealth. However, this description suggests a far more pedestrian film than we see in Les Diaboliques. It is no exaggeration to say that the film has one...