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The human body, its role and configuration in Classical Hollywood cinema, offers a condensed view of the tension to be observed between narrative and spectacle in film. With the revival of the musical genre in the mid-1930s as our starting point, this paper proposes to analyze the human body as it relates to narration, montage and mise en scène. Observations are based on examples from various scenes in the film The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich, 1934).
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AbstractThe traditional European concept of the “other” has been applied to aboriginal peoples, but in terms of historic habitation of the Americas it could properly be applied to the newcomers. The vision Amerindians had of French intruders was not flattering and calls into question assumptions about the superiority of European character, culture, and technology. Native responses, especially on the part of women, to French-Catholic missionary efforts illustrate the cultural and spiritual vitality of Amerindian societies. Just as there was only selective adoption of European material culture, so there was prudent consideration of spiritual values and beliefs.
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Michel de Certeau's studies of mysticism ended up in a reflection on the practice of history and on the status of the historian. This reflection led, in turn, to interrogations of an epistemological order on the articulation of thought and action. As elaborated by de Certeau, it is put into the perspective of an anthropological approach of the daily. He does not hesitate to speak of “histories of the daily” (the fortuitous practices of social actors taken as a whole), of all that is ordinary in human action. His enterprise is not the search for meaning, but rather the attentive examination of what is done and undone in daily practices. Often the words used will designate forms of resistance in the face of the imperious power of social order : poaching, tactics, ruse, wig, etc. These arts of the tactical refer to a poetics of acting articulated with social practices.
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Studies carried out to shed light on the heritage of women in Quebec librarianship have recently revealed another historical thread in its margins: that of the emergence of services for young audiences. The current study focuses on the contribution of pioneers in this sector such as Joséphine Marchand, whose engagement in public reading, through the Free Books Work, draws on ideologies in tension about the place of women in society, their role in the development of education, concern for children, cultural norms linked to certain literary genres and the place of censorship.
Keywords: Histoire des femmes en bibliothèque, histoire des bibliothèques publiques québécoises, lecture publique, féminisme, études de genre, History of women in libraries, history of Quebec public libraries, public reading, feminism, gender studies
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AbstractPierre-Daniel Huet is one of the most important skeptics from the end of the 17th/begining of the 18th centuries. In this article, I show that Descartes is the main source of Huet's skepticism by means of six remarks, each developed in a section of the article. 1) Huet discovered Cartesian doubt before he discovered ancient skeptical doubt ; 2) the skepticism exhibited in the Traité Philosophique de la Faiblesse de l'Esprit Humain and the anti-cartesianism exhibited in the Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae were originally parts of the same work ; 3) there is a skeptical Descartes in the Censura ; 4) the intellectual biography of the Provençal in the Traité Philosophique updates and pyrrhonizes Descartes's intellectual biography in the Discours de la Méthode ; 5) four skeptical arguments in the Traité — including the most important one in the book — are Cartesian ; 6) Huet's skepticism was perceived as partially Cartesian by the first readers of the manuscript.
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For five decades, Claudie Marcel-Dubois and Maguy Andral, key figures in ethnomusicology at the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, collected study material of great diversity, addressing musical practices and organology on almost all French territory, including some overseas territories. On the eve of reopening its collections in Marseille, the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions (renamed MuCEM in 2005) launched a vast operation to safeguard the archives. The article sheds a particular light on the ethnomusicological archives which figure prominently in these collections. Thanks to a partnership between the National Archives, a team from the IIAC (CNRS-EHESS Anthropology Laboratory) and MuCEM, the digitization of the written archives, photographs and sound recordings is nearing completion and will soon be accessible on the Internet. The dematerialization of an unrivaled collection for ethnomusicology in France opens a broad range of new possibilities for examination and interpretation.
Keywords: ethnomusicologie, archives sonores, Archives nationales (France), numérisation, ethnomusicology, sound archives, National Archives (France), digitization