T. Jefferson Kline Livres

Interviews with the French film director Agnès Varda (b. 1928).

Illuminates the connection between literature, identity, and mapmaking in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France..

The book explores the revolutionary impact of the French New Wave directors in the 1950s, who challenged the conventional relationship between film and literature. By employing innovative techniques that disrupted traditional narrative forms, these filmmakers embraced fragmentation and alienation, positioning cinema as an independent art form rather than a mere extension of literary storytelling. This shift not only redefined cinematic expression but also established film as a formidable rival to literature in narrative creativity.

Cartography and cinema are what might be called locational machinery. Maps and movies tell their viewers where they are situated, what they are doing, and, to a strong degree, who they are. In this groundbreaking work, eminent scholar Tom Conley establishes the ideological power of maps in classic, contemporary, and avant-garde cinema to shape the imaginary and mediated relations we hold with the world. Cartographic Cinema examines the affinities of maps and movies through comparative theory and close analysis of films from the silent era to the French New Wave to Hollywood blockbusters. In doing so, Conley reveals that most of the movies we see contain maps of various kinds and almost invariably constitute a projective apparatus similar to cartography. In addition, he demonstrates that spatial signs in film foster a critical relation with the prevailing narrative and mimetic registers of cinema. Conley convincingly argues that the very act of watching films, and cinema itself, is actually a form of cartography. Unlike its function in an atlas, a map in a movie often causes the spectator to entertain broader questions—not only about cinema but also of the nature of space and being.

Bruce Lee never died. And he hasn't aged. But he has no idea who he is, what's happened in the world in the past 40+ years, or why so many thugs want a piece of him. With the help of a fly BFF from the '70s - Joe Toomey, P I - and a pair of Teens, Bruce will find himself forced to do battle with an enigmatic Villain and his very own conscience.