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The first scholarly monograph dedicated to the French Western filmExamines an overlooked body of film whose production spans the history of cinemaAdvances the recovery of popular European cinemaNuances the positioning of film as a transnational mode of cultural productionProvocatively asserts the French Western’s non-existence to open a singular perspective on an emblematic film genre in film scholarship, theory, and criticismThe production of films that may be called both ‘French’ and ‘western’ spans the history of cinema, and includes the films by celebrated stars and directors. However, with the exception of early silent production, French westerns are overlooked in studies of French cinema, of film genre, and even of the ‘transnational’ western.French Westerns: The Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to these films. This study advances the recovery of popular European cinema and adds new dimension to the understanding of the western genre. However, the purpose is not to stretch existing definitions of the genre or the national cinema to accommodate this production. Instead, these films expose and exploit the acts of imagination to which the logics of ‘French Cinema’ and ‘Western’ owe their coherence: acts that fail repeatedly, productively, and at times spectacularly.

Western films --- Motion pictures --- Westerns --- Cinéma --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique.

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"This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern 'West'. Critical Ancient World Studies (CAWS) is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches of the discipline known as 'classical studies' and / or 'Classics'. Although it seeks to reckon with the discipline's colonial history, it is not simply the application of decolonial theory, or the search to uncover subaltern narratives in a subject that has special relevance to the privileged and powerful. Rather, it dismantles the structures of knowledge that have led to this privileging, and questions the categories, ideas, themes, narratives, and epistemological structures that have been deemed objective and essential within the inherited discipline of 'Classics'. The contributions in this book, by an international group of researchers, offer a variety of situated, embodied perspectives on the question of how to imagine a more critical discipline, rather than a unified single view. The volume is divided into four parts: Critical Epistemologies, Critical Philologies, Critical Time and Critical Space, and Critical Approaches, and uses these as spaces to propose disciplinary transformation. Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics is a must-read for scholars and practitioners teaching in the field of classical studies, and the breadth of examples also make it an invaluable resource for anyone working on the ancient world within other disciplines"--

Classical literature --- Classical languages --- Civilization, Classical --- Littérature ancienne --- Langues anciennes --- Civilisation ancienne --- History and criticism. --- Study and teaching. --- Histoire et critique. --- Étude et enseignement.

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This volume brings together the texts and translations for three Syriac martyr acts, set in Sasanian Persia during the reign of Shapur II (309-379 CE). These texts offer compelling witness to the challenges of a community's need to honor memory and experience, and evidence towards the formation and sustenance of Christian identity in the midst of Persian society and culture.

Christian martyrs --- Christian saints --- Martyrologes --- Martyrologies --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Persecution --- Persécutions --- Saints chrétiens --- Sassanides --- Sassanids --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- History

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"Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning and marketing strategies? These questions are at the core of this study, which looks at the birth of a phenomenon, that of the couple in the show business, with a focus on the promotional strategies devised by two professional performers: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583-ca.1631). This book examines their artistic path - a deliberately crafted and mutually beneficial joint career - and links it to the historical, social, and cultural context of post-Tridentine Italy. Rooted in a broad research field, encompassing theatre history, Italian studies, celebrity studies, gender studies, and performance studies, The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy revises the conventional view of the Italian diva, investigates the deployment of Catholic devotion as a marketing tool, and argues for the importance of the couple system in the history of Commedia dell'Arte, a system that continues to shape celebrity today"--

Acteurs --- Actors --- Actors. --- Commedia dell'arte --- Commedia dell'arte. --- Italian drama --- Italian drama. --- Theater --- Theater. --- Théâtre italien --- Théâtre --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Andreini, Giovanni Battista, --- Andreini, Virginia, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- To 1700. --- Italy.

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"Debunks stereotypes about blindness, in which readers, receivers and spectators from antiquity to the present have been implicated because their persistence relies on audiences to perpetuate them. Argues for a new way of seeing - and of understanding classical reception - using assemblage-thinking and with a focus on the theatre"--

Theater audiences --- Blindness in the theater. --- Theater --- Drama --- Blindness in literature. --- Théâtre --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Cécité dans la littérature. --- Blindness in literature --- Psychology. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire. --- Histoire et critique. --- Psychology