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View Rights PortalBertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation. Both a consummate artist and a controversial public figure, he is a passionate advocate for social causes and also a tireless defender of world cinema in general and the French cinematic heritage in particular. Lynn Higgins' book offers a guided tour through Tavernier's oeuvre, taking into account both its prodigious diversity and its unifying themes. It explores his use of genre and adaptation, his work with actors and his affection for characters, his treatment of France's colonial history, his explorations of the powers of art and the complexities of intergenerational relations, both among fictional characters and within French cinema history. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly book about Tavernier. Original and lively, sophisticated and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in film studies, gender studies, and French cultural studies including academics, students, cinema enthusiasts, and Tavernier fans.
Bertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation. Both a consummate artist and a controversial public figure, he is a passionate advocate for social causes and also a tireless defender of world cinema in general and the French cinematic heritage in particular. Lynn Higgins' book offers a guided tour through Tavernier's oeuvre, taking into account both its prodigious diversity and its unifying themes. It explores his use of genre and adaptation, his work with actors and his affection for characters, his treatment of France's colonial history, his explorations of the powers of art and the complexities of intergenerational relations, both among fictional characters and within French cinema history. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly book about Tavernier. Original and lively, sophisticated and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in film studies, gender studies, and French cultural studies including academics, students, cinema enthusiasts, and Tavernier fans. ;
Wie für Berthold Brecht ist auch für Peter Hacks die Bearbeitung vorgegebener dramatischer Werke ein wichtiger, selbstständiger Teil seines Schaffens. Nach den Bearbeitungen des aristophanischen »Frieden« und des Lust- und Trauerspiels »Die Kindermörderin« von Heinrich Leopold Wagner (edition suhrkamp Band 47) legt Peter Hacks jetzt den zweiten Band seiner Stücke nach Stücken vor. »Polly«, John Gays Fortsetzung seiner berühmten »Bettleroper«, dient Hacks dazu, aus der Hauptfigur des Stückes eine positive Heldin zu machen: Polly wechselt vom Millieu der Londoner Huren und Straßenräuber in das der Neuen Welt, wo sie nicht nur ihren Ehemann Mackie Messer wiederfindet, sondern unter Pionieren und Piraten, Militärs und Freudenmädchen, Indianern und Betrügern die vertrauten Sitten ihrer Heimat. »Die schöne Helena«, von Offenbach und seinen Librettisten Meilhac und Halévy bereits aus der Homerzeit ins zweite Kaiserreich geholt, um dort Korruption und doppelbödige Moral zu attackieren, wird in der Neufassung von Hacks – einer »Operette für Schauspieler« – zu einem Hohelied der Sinnlichkeit. Das Vergnügen resultiert aus der Geschichte, wie sie vorgeführt wird: Hacks Dialog ist doppelbödig und gespickt mit zeitkritischen Anspielungen, doch verläßt er nie die Stilebene, die er selbst als »Antike der Poesie« bezeichnet.