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La lutte contre les "Devil Devices" commence ! Julius et son frère jumeau Michael vivent dans les bidonvilles du royaume de Garlonia. Depuis toujours, Julius rêve de devenir un membre du célèbre Escadron des Chevaliers noirs pour sortir sa famille de la misère. Par chance, un examen d'entrée est organisé… Au cours de l'épreuve, Julius réalise que ses héros sont des êtres démoniaques appelés les "Devil Devices", et lui-même subit une étrange transformation : un démon a pris possession de sa main gauche…

Séparé de Trick Star après avoir été avalé par un monstre, Julius se retrouve en bien mauvaise posture. Comment sortir de cette prison de chair sans arme et sans les pouvoirs de son démon ? Une fois dehors, il lui faudra retourner à Garlonia affronter l'esprit démoniaque qui a pris possession de Michael. Quelle sera l'issue de ce combat ?

Après avoir été trahi par sa patrie et séparé de sa famille, Julius décide d'anéantir Garlonia. Avec l'aide de Trick Star, le démon qui a pris possession de sa main gauche et l'a entraîné au combat, il s'apprête à entrer en territoire ennemi. Mais une mystérieuse "brume noire" extermine tous ceux qui s'approchent de la frontière…

Primarily an essay in the Sociology of Knowledge, the major thrust of the discussion focuses upon the interaction of cultural, social structural, and social-psychological elements encouraging the shared perception pertaining to the feasibility of interpreting social behavior and the operation of a social system through the application of a positivistic point of departure.

In order to describe the role played by spices during the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age, the author Anna Unali focuses on the reports written by merchants, travellers, geographers and government officials. Their voices emerge powerfully and incisively in any recreation of this topic as the most important interpretative elements.

This study describes from an ontological perspective the foundation of freedom in two of Kleist's dramas. The novelty of this approach lies in the author's departure from the ontic considerations of freedom characterizing traditional Kleist scholarship. The present study advocates a de-construction of Kleist's concept of freedom back to its ontological basis : freedom is a cooperative enterprise of man and his situation. It is the author's contention that freedom in Kleist's works, rather than being defined by "a priori" categories, ensues primarily from the situation wherein it is being enacted. Man's relation to this situation is explored in a universal (Schroffenstein) and particular (Penthesilea) environment.

Familier des plateaux d'Alain Resnais, François Thomas a demandé aux collaborateurs du cinéaste de raconter la création collective de ses films des vingt dernières années. Les secrets de fabrication, la préparation intensive, les désaccords productifs, les heureux accidents, tout est exploré pour éclairer d'un jour nouveau une oeuvre qui repose sur des défis permanents. Où l'on apprendra tout sur les différences de jeu de Sabine Azéma et Pierre Arditi dans No smoking et Smoking, les chansons populaires entonnées par André Dussollier et Lambert Wilson dans On connaît la chanson, l'enregistrement d'une opérette par les comédiens de Pas sur la bouche qui n'avaient jamais chanté avant, les décors excentriques de Coeurs, les effets de couleurs jaillissants des Herbes folles ou la musique hypnotique de Vous n'avez encore rien vu. Pour finir, le livre dévoile les coulisses du dernier film du cinéaste, Aimer, boire et chanter, et présente le projet audacieux qui le suivait, Arrivals & Departures.

This study analyzes in depth the German effect upon D.H. Lawrence and his works from his birth in 1885 to his departure from England in 1912. German literary, philosophical and musical works had considerable impact on Lawrence's formation as an artist. They also influenced the creation of his own literary theory, entering his life concurrently with the three problems of class, woman and religion, which evolved into his major literary themes. The German effect is thus demonstrated to be the confirmation of Lawrence's strong tendency toward subjectivism in literary art : it strengthened his conviction that his art set him apart from all classes of society ; it encouraged the development of his view of women as the sexual, not the maternal, mediatrix to art ; and it fortified his denial of traditional Christianity and assisted his creation of his personal vitalistic creed.

Escamoté, travesti, réduit à un simple fond ou fidèlement restitué, l'ordinaire n'est jamais absent du cinéma. Gestes et lieux les plus communs servent de support aux actions des personnages. Qu'il s'agisse d'une scène de repas, d'une dispute familiale, de la montée d'un escalier, ils s'intègrent dans le développement d'une action, ils contribuent à la connaissance des personnages... Téléphoner, conduire, travailler au bureau : Arnaud Guigue a choisi des moments quotidiens clés, en montrant comment les réalisateurs les plus divers jusqu'à nos jours les ont saisis et en les déclinant chaque fois à l'aide d'exemples. Cette matière extrêmement riche, de la majestueuse descente en chantant de Marilyn Monroe dans Les hommes préfèrent les blondes, à l'étonnante découverte de métiers improbables comme celui du croque-mort de Departures pratiquant les rites anciens japonais, est ici travaillée selon une approche particulière. La démarche ne se réduit pas à un simple inventaire, les scènes des moments choisis se voient caractérisées et articulées selon une typologie prenant en compte le mode de plan, le dialogue, leur rapport. Une entrée dans l'histoire du cinéma qui vous donnera envie de revoir des films.

South African theatre, drama, and performance is a vibrant and rapidly developing area of contemporary theatre studies. In this critical anthology of essays and interviews, some of the world's most respected scholars and practitioners writing and working in the area of South African theatre today share their detailed examinations and insights on the complex and contradictory context of post-apartheid society. Loosely grouped into the categories of Theatre, Drama, and Performance, the essays collected here offer a sampling of work being staged, produced, and written in the country today. The contributors document, contrast, and analyse significant case studies, representing examples from site-specific performance to new South African plays, from traditional indigenous performance practice to the reimagining of Western classics. The anthology takes the year of South Africa's first democratic election, 1994, as its departure point and includes a broad range of topics that capture the current paradigm.

Editor's Choice Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 11th Chinese author Mo Yan 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Commission said that Mo Yan combination of reality and fantasy. historical and social perspective. He created the world reminiscent of the works of Faulkner and Marquez fusion while to find a point of departure in traditional Chinese literature and oral literature. Summary Pu Songling's hometown Zibo and Mo Yan's hometown density very close from. Mo Yan is to listen to the story of Purkinje child grew up. Pu Songling fantasy style to Mo Yan's fiction writing brought a very big impact. but also achievements in the magical style of Mo Yan. Learn Pu Songling is selected from the group consisting of Mo Yan two more than thirty ghost stories. ghost legend. and some weird God God Buddies ghost novels. with high-density the flapping gray Year pictures unique. to bring people look good. magical shock strong visual impact. Mo Yan (1955 catalog learning Pu Songling adventure night fishing genius good doctor iron child flying odor tribe carpenter the dog sandals scenting sub sins the the airship Zaomu stool motorcycle the three horses hype gale five pastry dry river Baekgu Swing frame of February 17 -). formerly known as tube mo. born in Gaomi County. famous contemporary Chinese writers. Honorary Doctor of the Open University of Hong Kong. visiting professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology. His rise since the mid-1980s to a series of local works. filled with nostalgia and blame Township complex emotional. are classified as Seeking literary writers. The works are influenced by magic realism. to write out a legend in the of Gaomi northeast Township. Mo Yan subjective feeling of the world in his novel structure unique to dream-like narrative. unfamiliar process. shaping the mysterious transcendental object world. with Pioneer color. In August 2011. Mo Yan With novel frog was the eighth Mao Dun. October 11. 2012. won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

David Hockney is the best known and most widely admired painter in the world. This vibrant catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Heong Gallery in Cambridge, as well as the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Throughout his long career, David Hockney has insistently explored diverse ways of depicting the visible world. He has scrutinised the methods of the old masters, and explored radical departures from their cherished assumptions The exhibition and accompanying book are the first to focus on this central theme in his art. "Western art" from the Renaissance until at least the late 19th century has been dominated by the depiction of nature. Was this to be accomplished by direct looking (called "eyeballing" by Hockney) or with the assistance of optical theory and devices, such as cameras ? Hockney has experimented with the full range of existing strategies, overtly using perspective in some of his classic pictures and rigorously investigating optical aids for the imitation of nature, including the camera obscura and camera lucida. Yet he has come to reject the photograph as the definitive image of what we see. Along the way, he has identified a "camera culture'' in European painting from 1400, arguing very controversially that the supreme naturalism of painters like Jan van Eyck are the product of optical devices. His book, Secret Knowledge (2001), with its majestic panorama of paintings over the course of five centuries, claims that art historians have missed the central aspect of painters' practice. The "Hockney thesis" has been received more favourably outside the professional world of art history than in it. His own artistic practice has been in vigorous dialogue with his radical thesis, and he has progressively demonstrated new and dynamic ways of characterising the visual world without perspective and other conventional techniques. This quest results a series of joyous challenges to our ways of seeing in the major exhibition in Cambridge at the Fitzwilliam Museum and in the Heong Gallery (Downing College). It will look at the whole span of Hockney's varied career and at the nature of the optical devices he has tested. His vision will be explored in the setting of traditional masterpieces of naturalistic observation, and in the context of modern sciences and technologies of seeing. The first section of the book looks at his thrilling experiments in seeing and representing in broad historical and contemporary contexts. This is followed by discussions of pre-photographic devices for capturing the appearances of things by optical means. The third section includes essays on Hockney's experiments from the perspectives of neuroscience and computer vision. In short, it reveals in a new way the working of Hockney's unique eye.