Agence Deborah Druba
AGENCE DEBORAH DRUBA is an international rights agency based in Paris.
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View Rights PortalThis is the first study to examine the entire life cycle in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a wide range of secondary and primary material, the book explores the timing and experiences of infancy, childhood, adolescence and youth, adulthood, old age and, finally, death. It discusses attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, age stereotypes in operation, and the means by which age was used as a form of social control, compelling individuals to work, govern, marry and pay taxes. The wide scope of the study allows contrasts and comparisons to be made across gender, social status and geographical location. It considers whether men and women experienced the ageing process in the same way, and examines the differences that can be discerned between northern and southern Europe. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries suffered famine, warfare, plague and population collapse. This fascinating consideration of the life cycle adds a new dimension to the debate over continuity and change in a period of social and demographic upheaval.
Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón. Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made. These include studies on del Toro's Cronos/Chronos, El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army; Iñárritu's Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel; and Cuarón's Sólo con tu pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria, Y tu mamá también, and Children of Men. The Three Amigos will be of interest to all those who study Hispanic and Spanish cinema in particular, and world and contemporary cinema in general.
Von Aristoteles und Boethius über Cicero bis Sokrates, Voltaire und Zarathustra: Für jeden Buchstaben des Alphabets steht ein berühmter Philosoph, der uns seine Vorstellung einer geglückten Lebensgestaltung nahebringt. Das Bedürfnis nämlich, ein »gutes Leben« zu führen, ist allen Menschen gemeinsam, wenn auch die Vorstellungen von einem solchen sehr unterschiedlich sein mögen. Peter Cornelius Mayer-Taschs mit leichter Hand geschriebenes Brevier eröffnet Einblicke in die unterschiedlichsten Räume kluger Lebensgestaltung: Die Philosophen, Großmeister der Weltweisheit, erfüllen die »Buchstaben der Philosophie« mit Leben und machen sie so zu einem unentbehrlichen Begleiter für jeden Tag.