Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253108708
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.
The Sounds of Early Cinema
The First Garden
Author: Anne Hebert
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 9780887845970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"When her long-estranged daughter disappears in Quebec, famous actress Flora Fontanges returns home from Paris and experiences a devastating confrontation with the past."
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 9780887845970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"When her long-estranged daughter disappears in Quebec, famous actress Flora Fontanges returns home from Paris and experiences a devastating confrontation with the past."
French Grammar Drills
Author: Eliane Kurbegov
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071593624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Sharpen your French grammar with skill-building exercises If you want to be proficient in French, you eventually have to clear the bothersome hurdle of grammar. The best way to conquer this obstacle is through hands-on experience. Covering all facets of French grammar--from prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--French Grammar Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics with fun and engaging exercises. This comprehensive book features: More than 150 exercises that demonstrate how the French grammar system works as well as review exercises to reinforce your learning An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept o Quick reviews bring you up to speed on grammar Topics include: Indefinite and definite articles * Demonstrative adjectives * Possessive pronouns * Conjunctions * Imparfait and passé composé * Verbal expressions and idioms * and more
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071593624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Sharpen your French grammar with skill-building exercises If you want to be proficient in French, you eventually have to clear the bothersome hurdle of grammar. The best way to conquer this obstacle is through hands-on experience. Covering all facets of French grammar--from prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--French Grammar Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics with fun and engaging exercises. This comprehensive book features: More than 150 exercises that demonstrate how the French grammar system works as well as review exercises to reinforce your learning An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept o Quick reviews bring you up to speed on grammar Topics include: Indefinite and definite articles * Demonstrative adjectives * Possessive pronouns * Conjunctions * Imparfait and passé composé * Verbal expressions and idioms * and more
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Québécois Dictionary
Author: Bergeron, Léandre
Publisher: Lorimer
ISBN: 9780888625489
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Lorimer
ISBN: 9780888625489
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Indiana
Author: George Sand
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Indiana is the story's heroine, a young noblewoman descended from French colonial settlers from Île Bourbon who lives in France. Indiana is married to an older ex-army officer named Colonel Delmare and suffers from the lack of passion in her life. Indiana does not love Delmare and searches for someone who will love her passionately. Her cousin Ralph is in love with her, but she overlooks him and falls in love with their well-spoken neighbor, Raymon de Ramiere. Indiana escapes the house to faithfully present herself in Raymon's apartments in the middle of the night, but they don't get along and Colonel Delmare takes Indiana to Île Bourbon. Indiana returns to France on a perilous sea journey during the French Revolution of 1830, where she reconnects with Raymon, but also with Ralph, which further complicate matters. The novel is an exploration of nineteenth-century female desire complicated by class constraints and by social codes about infidelity.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Indiana is the story's heroine, a young noblewoman descended from French colonial settlers from Île Bourbon who lives in France. Indiana is married to an older ex-army officer named Colonel Delmare and suffers from the lack of passion in her life. Indiana does not love Delmare and searches for someone who will love her passionately. Her cousin Ralph is in love with her, but she overlooks him and falls in love with their well-spoken neighbor, Raymon de Ramiere. Indiana escapes the house to faithfully present herself in Raymon's apartments in the middle of the night, but they don't get along and Colonel Delmare takes Indiana to Île Bourbon. Indiana returns to France on a perilous sea journey during the French Revolution of 1830, where she reconnects with Raymon, but also with Ralph, which further complicate matters. The novel is an exploration of nineteenth-century female desire complicated by class constraints and by social codes about infidelity.
Speak Québec!
Author: Daniel Kraus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781532002526
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Regarde �a! As-tu d�j� vu �a? Tu me crois-tu? Speak Qu�bec! is a fun and practical handbook designed to help both native English and French speakers understand and speak Qu�b�cois, the common tongue in Qu�bec. Comprising over three thousand commonly used words and expressions, Speak Qu�bec! provides a dynamic and accurate reference for daily Qu�bec conversation, including clear examples of common sayings heard around the Province. It also includes a complete history of the language, and a guide to differences in pronunciation and grammar from International French. Designed for quick reference and practical usage, Speak Qu�bec! is a terrific way to understand and appreciate one of the oldest, richest, and most inspired cultures in North America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781532002526
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Regarde �a! As-tu d�j� vu �a? Tu me crois-tu? Speak Qu�bec! is a fun and practical handbook designed to help both native English and French speakers understand and speak Qu�b�cois, the common tongue in Qu�bec. Comprising over three thousand commonly used words and expressions, Speak Qu�bec! provides a dynamic and accurate reference for daily Qu�bec conversation, including clear examples of common sayings heard around the Province. It also includes a complete history of the language, and a guide to differences in pronunciation and grammar from International French. Designed for quick reference and practical usage, Speak Qu�bec! is a terrific way to understand and appreciate one of the oldest, richest, and most inspired cultures in North America.
Suddenly the Minotaur
Author: Marie Hélène Poitras
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897190166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torres try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempt's aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning novel, Marie Helene Poitras, with an imagination tutored by the Minotaur myth, offers a controversial tale about a thug who exults in his ferocious urges and is as incorrigible as a primal force. Torres (the bull) enthusiastically and unapologetically seeks hectic transcendence through rape and recurring fits of epilepsy. Ariane (Ariadne), straying into his twisted, downtown Montreal labyrinth, suffers the consequences of his random sexual predation, though significantly, her refusal to be a terrorized and passive victim haunts him. Ariane's deliverance from his maze, her conquest of persistent fears, is prolonged past her assailant's capture. Once more she must learn to live and love - in particular, men - to pick up and follow the thread of human trust, to feel sure again about her flat's dark places and her walk-in cupboard's contents. On the site of the Berlin Wall, in a reunified Germany that has survived its own and other regimes' violent perversions, she permits herself to be gently hoisted up and passed from palm-to-palm over a vast and joy-filled crowd.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897190166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torres try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempt's aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning novel, Marie Helene Poitras, with an imagination tutored by the Minotaur myth, offers a controversial tale about a thug who exults in his ferocious urges and is as incorrigible as a primal force. Torres (the bull) enthusiastically and unapologetically seeks hectic transcendence through rape and recurring fits of epilepsy. Ariane (Ariadne), straying into his twisted, downtown Montreal labyrinth, suffers the consequences of his random sexual predation, though significantly, her refusal to be a terrorized and passive victim haunts him. Ariane's deliverance from his maze, her conquest of persistent fears, is prolonged past her assailant's capture. Once more she must learn to live and love - in particular, men - to pick up and follow the thread of human trust, to feel sure again about her flat's dark places and her walk-in cupboard's contents. On the site of the Berlin Wall, in a reunified Germany that has survived its own and other regimes' violent perversions, she permits herself to be gently hoisted up and passed from palm-to-palm over a vast and joy-filled crowd.
Learn Canadian French
Author: Pierre Levesque
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781366373571
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Learn Canadian French and speak with a beautiful aged accent of colonial France that has stood the test of time, exceeding 400 years in North America. This book provides countless expressions, idioms, and typical French Canadian words, explaining the differences between Parisian French and Canadian French, with many grammar tables. This book also contains one chapter featuring French-Canadian medium to high impact coarse language. This second edition also includes downloadable audio files, provided in the link inside the book. Once downloaded, you may listen to various chapters and practice your Canadian French oral spoken skills by repeating the sentences and pronunciations. You will also find that the words include English transliteral pronunciations of the French words, which helps the reader tremendously in understanding the French-Canadian accent.
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781366373571
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Learn Canadian French and speak with a beautiful aged accent of colonial France that has stood the test of time, exceeding 400 years in North America. This book provides countless expressions, idioms, and typical French Canadian words, explaining the differences between Parisian French and Canadian French, with many grammar tables. This book also contains one chapter featuring French-Canadian medium to high impact coarse language. This second edition also includes downloadable audio files, provided in the link inside the book. Once downloaded, you may listen to various chapters and practice your Canadian French oral spoken skills by repeating the sentences and pronunciations. You will also find that the words include English transliteral pronunciations of the French words, which helps the reader tremendously in understanding the French-Canadian accent.
Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century
Author: National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
This volume incorporates the national standards for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages, French, German, Italian, Japanese Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
This volume incorporates the national standards for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages, French, German, Italian, Japanese Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.