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The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood''s popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audienc

Western films --- History and criticism. --- CDL --- 791.43 --- History and criticism

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Visage, silhouette, souvenir, mouvement : le portrait échappe aux définitions ; masquant ce qu’il figure, tout en démasquant la scène de la figure, il se construit non comme genre, mais comme lieu de conflits, d’autant plus étonnant qu’il n’a cessé de s’étendre - dans le monde atlantique - du dieu fait homme aux riches et aux puissants, puis à quiconque désire son image. Le portraitiste est aux prises avec les attentes d’un modèle et avec les règles d’un système représentatif socialement codifié, en même temps il se trouve engagé dans un rapport physique avec la personne qui l’a sollicité et lui fait face. Le portrait se donne ainsi comme lieu d’investissements psychiques et sociaux et l’art du portrait devra croiser les normes propres à une époque, qu’il ne peut ignorer, et le déni des conventions où l’excès prend libre cours. Passant de Picasso aux photographes contemporains, de Matisse à Velázquez ou Van Dyck comme de Rembrandt à Picasso, l’essai s'attache à cerner la mise en cause de la représentation à travers des œuvres qui, pourtant, ont à donner la trace de figures humaines. Persona, ou l’énigme du portrait lorsqu’il s’expose en peinture.

Portrait painting --- Portraits --- 75.041 --- CDL --- Portraiture --- Art --- Biography --- Pictures --- Painting --- Figure painting --- Sociology --- esthétique --- peinture --- photographie --- portrait --- arts --- sociologie de l’art

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Cet essai s’organise autour de quelques objets choisis dans le cinéma américain, relevant tous de la figuration humaine et mettant en jeu le corps de l’homme. À travers des films de Cecil B. DeMille, Don Siegel, Keaton et Preminger, il s’agit d’étudier comment l’homme filmique, dessaisi de soi par les variations de la syntaxe figurative, se trouve relégué au rôle de motif iconographique, jouxtant de près le décor au point de s’y confondre : devenir accessoire de l’homme, où se donne à voir l’avènement de la figurine, soit une image de l’inhumain. Reprendre le problème de la représentation au cinéma c’est ainsi revenir à une hypothèse critique, qui pourrait rendre concevable un Autre de la figure.

Motion pictures --- Philosophy --- CDL --- 791.41 --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cinematography --- History and criticism --- Philosophy. --- Motion pictures - Philosophy --- image --- cinéma --- États-Unis

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Plastics --- Plastics industry and trade --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Chemical Engineering --- Plastic industries --- Chemical industry --- Polymers industry --- Plastic materials --- Plastic products --- Polymers --- Synthetic products --- Condensation products (Chemistry) --- Elastomers --- Plasticity --- History --- 745.59 --- CDL --- History.

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Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn't always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking's labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.

Trucking --- Independent truck drivers --- Owner-operator truck drivers --- Self-employed truck drivers --- Wildcat truckers --- Self-employed --- Truck drivers --- E-books --- Independent truck drivers - United States. --- cdl truckers. --- cdl. --- contemporary labor markets and long haul trucking. --- deregulation of trucking industry. --- driving a big rig. --- exploitive labor of the working class. --- freight drivers. --- history of trucking industry. --- labor. --- long haul trucking. --- organized trucking. --- over the road trucking. --- owner operator trucking. --- semi drivers. --- trucking industry. --- trucking labor markets. --- trucking. --- union truck drivers. --- working class discourse. --- working class history.