Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> European - French

Winner of seven Molieres, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its aftermath, a perspective quite different from either the American or the Israeli one. Grumberg's Jews are French to their fingertips, yet they have been made more consciously Jewish by the war and...

The origin and development of the marionette theater, emphasizing its growth in a region where it still flourishes as a popular form of entertainment.

From the Introduction:
"The texts of Aman used in the preparation of this edition are taken from five editions of Montchrestien's plays, i.e., 1601, 1603, 1604, 1606, 1627. There are, however, in fact only two editions which differ from each other, i.e., the 1601 and 1604 editions. . . . In the arrangement of the present text in this edition of texts of the editions of 1601 and 1604] are printed on opposite pages."

Illustrated mini dictionary of actors and actresses of the French Cinema.
An insight into French film through its actors: profiles of 175 actors and actresses of the French Cinema, illustrated with caricatures of each actor by Jenny BATLAY and Igor BRATUSEK. - Not just biographies, but personal sketches of the actors and actresses, looking at their personalities, acting, and careers. The book is presented alphabetically in mini-dictionary form, and its contributors include academics from around the world - from universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, Cyprus,...