This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English-speaking world for his award-winning "Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds" of 1994. This study locates Andre Techine within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian War, May 1968 and contemporary globalization, and the influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, William Faulkner, and the cinematic French New Wave. The originality of Techine's sixteen feature films lies in his subtle exploration of sexuality and...
This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English-spe...
The wind of change had been blowing across the earth's surface for centuries before someone made headlines with the phrase. This wind had been affecting nations, peoples, their attitudes and their ways of thinking; sometimes for the worse, and sometimes, for the better. Perhaps, one might justifiably say that this explains why the human race tends to be caught with its pants down in the matter of development; sometimes very positive, but all too often, far too negative. In every city, there is one area which remains defiantly and stubbornly averse to change or development. One such area in...
The wind of change had been blowing across the earth's surface for centuries before someone made headlines with the phrase. This wind had been affe...
