across his career. Rourke's “comeback” performance potentially overwhelms any other reading, personalizing and de-realizing the film's brutality, reducing it to the Hollywood equivalent of the alienated violence it ironically portrays. While this danger
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Incarnation, Alienation, and Emancipation
A Sartrean Analysis of Filmic Violence
Daniel Sullivan
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 1–21 (21 total)
Populism and the Failures of Representation
Suzanne Berger
contrary: the Front national won almost 11 million votes—a total that far exceeded their previous performances. For an American political scientist still astonished and baffled by Trump’s populist victory, the crystal ball of prediction looks very cloudy
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 21–31 (11 total)
Book Reviews
Michael Miller, Paul V. Dutton, and Laura Hobson Faure
political program ( une politique ) and why this program of public health in France could not, despite such a convincing performance during the war, be recast into a national health care system during the interwar period that followed….” (22). Put
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 143–152 (10 total)
The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress
Christine Adams
of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stressed a more “relational” feminism, one that underlined the reciprocal relationship of men and women, and commended the performance of femininity and womanly allure by French women. 62 Like this
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 44–66 (23 total)
Telling the Story of History with Henry Rousso and Ivan Jablonka
Situating the Present to Write the Past
Nathan Bracher
deliver a singular performance of what historians—from Herodotus and Thucydides in Ancient Greece to the many renowned practitioners of the craft 4 in their twentieth and twenty-first century workshops 5 —have always done best: they tell a story, in this
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Other
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- 129–142 (14 total)
The Gallic Singularity
The Medieval and Early Modern Origins
Tracy Adams
Crawford, “Catherine de Médicis and the Performance of Political Motherhood,” Sixteenth Century Journal 31, 3 (2000): 643–674, doi:10.2307/2671075; and Katherine Crawford, Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France (Cambridge, MA
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 21–43 (23 total)
Political Campaigns and Civic Culture
Comparing Canvassing and Party Structures in the French and American 2012 Presidential Campaigns
Julien Talpin
performance of their champion—not about the personal motivations to engage in the campaign. By contrast, the volunteers encountered in the United States seem to avoid this type of situation. In Los Angeles, I was teamed with Lisa, a volunteer who was
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- 11–33 (23 total)
Pratiques linguistiques et usages de l’anglais dans les musiques électro-amplifiées en france
le cas des spectacles à L’international
Michael Spanu and Jean-Marie Seca
connaissant ni la musique ni les membres du groupe avant le concert lui-même, ont tendance à juger plus froidement la performance. Ce public-là est d’ailleurs généralement en retrait. Il répond rarement corporellement à la musique. Il « examine » le concert
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 122–142 (21 total)
Is France Still Relevant?
Sophie Meunier
. Of the seventy-two countries surveyed, France has emerged as the country where a student’s socio-economic and cultural background has the greatest effect on academic performance. Forty percent of children coming from the poorest backgrounds are in
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 59–75 (17 total)
Between Resistance and the State
Caribbean Activism and the Invention of a National Memory of Slavery in France
Itay Lotem
Minister Dominique de Villepin and the presidents of the Sénat and the Assemblée nationale, and bore the mark of a classically republican ceremony. It began with expected tributes to Caribbean culture—readings of Aimé Césaire and performances by
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- 126–148 (23 total)