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Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Boris Vian (1920-1959) is today considered one of France's foremost avant-garde novelists of the twentieth century, but in his lifetime he was known to a wide audience as the author of one work: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I Will Spit on Your Graves), a pastiche of American hard-boiled fiction which he published in 1946 under the name of a fictitious Black American author, Vernon Sullivan. Vian died twelve years later of heart failure while viewing the film adaptation, which he had no part in producing. Vian-as-author "died" long before that fateful moment, however: first when he perpetrated a …
Cathodisms, Stéphane Spoiden
Cathodisms, Stéphane Spoiden
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
At a time when European television is undergoing constant change, it is undoubtedly more opportune than ever to talk about it, less perhaps because it would be "mediocratized"' than because new multimedia techniques which are developing at the current time could render it obsolete or at least radically transform it...
From War Films To Films On War: Gendered Scenarios Of National Identity—The Case Of The Last Metro, Leah D. Hewitt
From War Films To Films On War: Gendered Scenarios Of National Identity—The Case Of The Last Metro, Leah D. Hewitt
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
If France's ongoing struggle for self-definition in the late twentieth century involved new conceptions of citizenship and nationality, in short what it means to be French, this struggle also entailed the search for an accurate portrayal of a past in which France could recognize itself...
Maghrebi-French Directors Behind The Camera: The Cinema Of The Second G, Dina Sherzer
Maghrebi-French Directors Behind The Camera: The Cinema Of The Second G, Dina Sherzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In an article entitled "De Nanterre à Hollywood" ("From Nanterre to Hollywood"), published in a 1996 issue of L'Express, Dalila Kerkouche writes: "leur père tenait le marteau piqueur, eux manient la caméra…