Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat Author(s): Katherine Ince Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 157-164 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 . Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms
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A father‚ buying his child a cornet at the ice cream barrow; this event would surely seem so very casual to most of us. But‚ the very spectacle is heartrending for the kids who stroll by the streets bare footed‚ jump up to every other car at the traffic signals and look at every passer-by with desperate eyes. He too might have been standing on the outskirt of the gathering around the same ice cream barrow longing for it. With empty pockets he might have stood there all the time waiting for that miraculous
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Planning and land use Urban planning (urban‚ city‚ and town planning) is a technical and political process concerned with the control of the use of land and design of the urban environment‚ including transportation networks‚ to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities. It concerns itself with research and analysis‚ strategic thinking‚ architecture‚ urban design‚ public consultation‚ policy recommendations‚ implementation and management. A plan can take a variety of
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QEH Working Paper Series – QEHWPS86 Page 1 Working Paper Number 86 A Note On Destitution Barbara Harriss-White* Paper for the Dissemination Workshop of the NCAER/QEH/DfID Project on Poverty : Alternative Realities‚ NCAER‚ New Delhi‚ April‚ 2002 In this paper the economic‚ social and political dimensions of destitution are analysed. Economic destitution is seen as a contradiction in terms since destitute people survive without assets and income. Social destitution is a process of expulsion
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To what extent do the writers studied on this module inherit‚ reject or extend the thematic and formal characteristics of literary modernism? Discuss with reference to works by two writers studied on this module. `The theatre`s intrinsic connection to physical reality and social existence make some of the key modernist principles inapplicable` is the conclusion that Christopher Innes draws in his treatise on Modernism in Drama.1 Still‚ Innes attributes a `modernist vision` to both Samuel Beckett
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In the article "The Argument of Comedy‚” Northrop Frye identifies two forms of ancient Greek comedy: Old Comedy‚ as in the plays of Aristophanes‚ and New Comedy‚ known primarily from the plays of Menander. Old Comedy‚ as Frye points out‚ is so out of date that when we speak of comedy today‚ we are referring to New Comedy. Fry argues that Shakespeare’s comedies are neither Old nor New Comedy‚ but have elements of both. Frye opines that New Comedy mainly comes from what he describes as a comic Oedipus
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What is Comedy? The definition of comedy in the contemporary meaning of the term‚ is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter‚ especially in theatre‚ television‚ film and stand-up comedy‚ (Source: www.Wikipeadia.com). So more basically‚ an artistic creation that is humorous - provkes laughter - in a number of ways including literture‚ TV and threatre. Furthermore‚ the word comedy seems to have steamed from the Greek verb meaning ‘to revel’. This
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Pollution: A Menace to the World With every tick of the clock‚ changes of all sorts take place in all the corners of the world. They happen almost simultaneously with split second apart from each other. Looking back‚ is this still the very same planet on which are ancestors set their feet? Has man abused nature so much that the face of the earth has totally changed? In the course of our progress‚ humanity‚ as a whole‚ gradually forgets the responsibility of protecting mother
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structure helps project the tone of the movie. The generalization of movies usually commences passively‚ and gradually builds into a climactic scene. Then‚ it dies down to its peaceful way once more‚ but usually not in a horror or comedy. Throughout the history of horror and comedy movies‚ the plots usually ended on that climactic scene and had most of the movie be the foundation for that climax. As time went on‚ plot structures of the two genres started to develop and one could see that they help convey
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believed that tragedy served a higher purpose than comedy because of its cathartic effect. Therefore‚ comedy is delegitimized. But comedy does serve a social purpose that can be considered cathartic. It can be an outlet for social angst. At the time Lysistrata was written‚ Athens‚ a superpower of their time‚ had just lost a battle with Sparta. This probably shattered the conceptions of Athenians. And as a result‚ Aristophanes used a ribald comedy about the less-than-citizen women of Sparta and Athens
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