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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 …
"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson
"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
On the dedication page of The Blacks, Genet writes "One evening an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his color?" Prefiguring major issues and paradoxes of African American cultural studies today, The Blacks insists on the very real ways in which the black/white racial binary, like the very concept of race itself, is lived and socially enforced, and at the same time argues that the binary is ultimately a fiction, made real through performative reification. Genet's "clown show," ambiguously reversing the blackface minstrelsy tradition, …
Imitations Of Immortality: "Shadow Of The Vampire", James Craig Holte
Imitations Of Immortality: "Shadow Of The Vampire", James Craig Holte
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
"Unconscious Cerebration" And The Happy Ending Of Dracula, John Greenway
"Unconscious Cerebration" And The Happy Ending Of Dracula, John Greenway
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
The Tomb Of Vlad Tepes, Constantin Rezachevici
The Tomb Of Vlad Tepes, Constantin Rezachevici
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Root Canals: The Neutered Vampire And The Metamorphosis Of Undead Metaphor, Chris Mcgunnigle
Root Canals: The Neutered Vampire And The Metamorphosis Of Undead Metaphor, Chris Mcgunnigle
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Repulsive Pariah Or Romantic Prince? Transforming Monstrosity In Bram Stoker's And Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Vrunda Stampwala Sahay
Repulsive Pariah Or Romantic Prince? Transforming Monstrosity In Bram Stoker's And Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Vrunda Stampwala Sahay
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Xenophobia And Its Subversion In Darker Than You Think, Margaret L. Carter
Xenophobia And Its Subversion In Darker Than You Think, Margaret L. Carter
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
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…