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Catherine Wheatley

In an in-depth and illuminating account, Wheatley examines the key themes at the heart of the 'meaning' of Caché: the film as thriller; post-colonial bourgeois guilt; political accountability and lastly, reality, the media and its ...

French Film in Britain: Sex, Art and Cinephilia

Lucy Mazdon

Sex, Art and Cinephilia Lucy Mazdon, Catherine Wheatley. First published in 2013 by Berghahn Books www.berghahnbooks.com ©2013 Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for ...

Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall: Or, a Ramble from the ...

Henry Benjamin Wheatley

It was then Wheatley alone, Fletcher and Wheatley, Fletcher alone, and, lastly, Puttick and Simpson. These auction-rooms were principally devoted to the sale of books, and among the celebrated libraries sold there may be mentioned Brand's ...

Surveillance Cinema

Catherine Zimmer

As film scholar Catherine Wheatley points out, this technological confusion is significantly produced by the use of high-resolution digital video. While earlier video images within film are often marked off as low-res, and thus stamped with the ...

Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics

John C. Shields

Gregory Rigsby's study of Wheatley's elegies, also appearing in 1975, represents the first purely aesthetic approach to her poetry. In this article, “Form and Content in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies,” Rigsby catalogs her elegies according to subject ...

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition.

Phillis Wheatley

Emily Smith

Phillis Wheatley was the very first African American woman to have a book published.

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

Vincent Carretta

Reveals the fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book, and only the second woman to do so in America, and also to do so while she was a slave and a teenager.

European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945

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'LE CINÉASTE D'HORREUR ORDINAIRE': mICHaEl HaNEkE aND THE HORRORS OF EvERYDaY ExISTENCE Catherine Wheatley The climate of[my] films derivesfrom an experience that isfamiliar to us all, cold indifference, breakdown in ...

The Bengal Obituary ... being a compilation of monumental ...

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Weldon, Susana .. Wellesley. ... Wharton, M. E. M. Frans. Wheatley, Geo. Hampden Wheatley, James . . . . Wheelan, P. . . . . W'heler. Edward “'hicker, C. C. . . .. “'hinfield, Wm. ... Wilkinson, Mary Dize Wilkinson, Susan Eliza Wilkinson, T. 11.

Framed!: Essays in French Studies

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Catherine Wheatley Unseen/Obscene: The (Non) Framing of the Sexual Act in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste I would like to be recognized for making in La Pianiste an obscenity, but not a pornographic film. (Michael Haneke) In his introduction ...

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

Vincent Carretta

Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753? 1784), who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman of any race or background to do so in America."

The Europeanness of European Cinema: Identity, Meaning, ...

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Reflections on Popular French Cinema (Wallflower, 2001), Je t'aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations and French Cinema in Britain: Sex, Art and Cinephilia (Berghahn: 2010 and 2013, both with Catherine Wheatley).

Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self

Henry Louis Gates

In one of the few close readings of Wheatley's verse, Gregory Rigsby'4 demonstrates conclusively that her elegies are a creative variation of the “English Elegy” and the “Puritan Elegy.” Wheatley's elegies are threnodic after the fashion of the ...

Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America

Karen A. Weyler

While Wheatley's elegies are part of the English elegiac tradition, Gregory Rigsby argues that Wheatley was more heavily influenced by the American Puritan funeral elegy, which was influenced by the funeral sermon. Rigsby, “Form and ...

Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in ...

Katherine Clay Bassard

elegies to date: Gregory Rigsby, “Form and Content in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies, ” College Language Association Journal 19, no. 2 (1975): 248–57; and Mukhtar Ali Isani, “Phillis Wheatley and the Elegaic Mode,” in Robinson, Critical Essays, ...

Je T Aime... Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations

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This book is part of a wider project tracing the history of French cinema in Britain which I am currently researching alongside Catherine Wheatley. While French cinema has long been the most visible non-English language cinema in Britain, ...

Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image

Catherine Wheatley

Adam Bingham, 'Life, or Something Like It', Kinoeye Online Film http://www. kinoeye.org/04/01/bingham01_n02.php (last accessed 18 August 2006). My emphasis. Bingham, 'Life, or Something Like It'. Bingham, 'Life, or Something Like It'. Frey ...

Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Margaret Wheatley

i, Aeron Miller xii, Meg Wheatley xviii, DanielSeguin.ca 3, Deborah Frieze 6, Paul Winder 9, Deborah Frieze 1617, Illustration by Todd Stewart 18, Deborah Frieze 21, Deborah Frieze 23, Alex Lewin 23, Deborah Frieze 26, Aerin Dunford 26, ...

Catherine Booth: Laying the Theological Foundations of a ...

John Read

15 Norman Murdoch and Ann Woodall conclude from this that Catherine's commitment to social action was compromised at best.16 In his novel Whitechapel, Ian Porter gives Catherine's words to a sarcastic critic who despises the Army ...

Mr Lynch's Holiday

Catherine O'Flynn

Catherine O'Flynn. Catherine" O'Flynn Bestselling Author of //bat // as Lost, Costa First Novel Award Winner "Delightful... a rare love story between a father and a son Sunday Telegraph Catherine O'Flynn MR LYNCH ' S HOLIDAY. Front Cover.

Island of Ghosts: A Novel of Roman Britain

Gillian Bradshaw

... Sharan Newman's critically acclaimed Catherine LeVendeur mystery series pits Catherine and her husband in a bizarre game of chance — which may end in Catherine's death. PLAY IT AGAIN • Stephen Humphrey Bogart In the classic style ...

Freedom

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Humphrey Ware, and Catherine Ware, his wife -being duly sworn, state, that the said Catherine Ware was formerly the slave of one Luke Hawkins, of Charles County, Maryland. - That about eighteen years ago the said Catherine Ware, was ...

Gender, Age and Musical Creativity

Catherine Haworth

Catherine Haworth, Lisa Colton. Catherine Parsons Smith describes three patriarchal traditions at the beginning of the twentieth century – serialism, neoclassicism and futurism – claiming that all of these exclude women linguistically.16 In fact, ...

Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine ...

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

This rich seasonal devotional reads like a sampler of the everyday spirituality of Catherine Doherty--a spiritual giant of the 20th-century who counted Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day among her friends, founded the Madonna House Apostolate, ...