One of the most important movements in cinema history, the French New Wave of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais not only revitalised French cinema, but permanently shifted cinema's aesthetic horizons by incorporating the narrative complexities of emerging modernist literature such as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras and Jean Cayrol.
This volume is the first title to comprehensively analyse these links between the New Wave and the New Novel, exploring intellectual figures such as Roland Barthes and Jorge Luis...
Neglected French New Wave
Nearly fifty years ago, a second French Revolution swept through the streets, studios, and movie theaters of Paris, permanently altering long-entrenched conceptions of what cinema could be....
Jean-Marie Le Clézio Wins Nobel Literature Prize
French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose vast world travels form the poetic and descriptive backdrop for his body of work, won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The...
Godard from 1960-1967
The Cleveland Cinematheque will show a series of 10 features from Godard's most fecund period from 1960 to 1967. French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard virtually sprinted through the 1960s, making...
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
Based on the best-selling and award-winning Classical Kids CD, Beethoven Lives Upstairs was hailed upon its original release as "a video masterpiece" by the Boston Herald and "the best family...
Beethoven: Greatest Hits
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