Author: Gustave MacéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Mon premier crime
Author: Gustave MacéSpectacular Realities
Author: Vanessa R. SchwartzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520924208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris emerged as the entertainment capital of the world. The sparkling redesigned city fostered a culture of energetic crowd-pleasing and multi-sensory amusements that would apprehend and represent real life as spectacle. Vanessa R. Schwartz examines the explosive popularity of such phenomena as the boulevards, the mass press, public displays of corpses at the morgue, wax museums, panoramas, and early film. Drawing on a wide range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, Schwartz argues that "spectacular realities" are part of the foundation of modern mass society. She refutes the notion that modern life produced an unending parade of distractions leading to alienation, and instead suggests that crowds gathered not as dislocated spectators but as members of a new kind of crowd, one united in pleasure rather than protest.
Mysteries of Police and Crime
Author: Arthur GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738196551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Academy
Author: Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Moi, violeur, tueur et fier de l'être !
Author: Véronique BEAUMONTPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326000993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Ne d'une mere toxicomane et d'un pere alcoolique, Luc est un enfant maltraite. Devenu peintre, il decide de se venger et tue ses parents. Puis, progressivement, alors que personne ne le soupconne, il prend plaisir a violer et a tuer. Dans cette confession, Luc explique comment et pourquoi il est devenu psychopathe, tout en decrivant ses etats d'ame avant, pendant et apres ses crimes."
The Month
Author: The Woman at Home
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Annie S. Swan's magazine.
The Crimes of Paris
Author: Thomas HooblerPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316052531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets -- all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time -- the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso....