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...trying to teach people to accept the existence of it. As with any tradition of moving-image culture, we need to take it seriously. We need to try and come at it with some theoretical tools." Like many porn scholars, Williams includes readings from Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault, the French philosopher who wrote about sexual identity, to explore how porno movies interpret desire and what that says about the human psyche. Similarly, Alex Halavais, an assistant professor of communication at SUNY Buffalo, tracks pornography's pivotal role in the development of communications systems from the telephone to the Internet...
...safety net. If reforms do not pass, the whole European project is at stake. This is about adaptation or extinction. In 1968, amidst the barricades that inspired Jean Paul Sartre, ideals rotted because of extremism and ideological stagnation. Beautiful dreams turned into anarchism, burning books, and Jacobin violence. Today, Michel Houellebecq, a prominent French writer, points out how even the utopian sexual revolution was perverted into a quasi-capitalist system of inescapable repression and perversion. So much for college dreams. According to another ’68 slogan, beneath the cobblestones, the beach lay. The beach is still there, waiting...
...fresh air is a rooted way of life in the Landes region of southwestern France, where foie gras is the highest expression of both culinary excellence and regional identity. The Laffitte family has been in the poultry trade for the better part of a century, and neither chicken farmer Michel, 50, nor his duck-raising nephew Stéphane, 32, is about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these days. And both their opponents...
Dave Chappelle’s Block PartyDirected by Michel GondryRogue Pictures5 starsMidway through “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party” some very familiar notes are heard. Slowly, the camera pans out from the stage and reveals Kanye West leading the Central State University marching band in a beautiful performance of “Jesus Walks.” The rendition has all the class, emotion, history and feeling West never could eke out of that soul jam, no matter how many times he filmed the video.And this song is just one of the many, many...
...himself (who starred in and co-produced The Chorus, nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2005). Christian Clavier co-wrote and starred in The Visitors, Josiane Balasko's many triumphs include 1989's Too Beautiful For You, comic star Thierry Lhermitte appeared in Le Divorce and Michel Blanc has been in films by Robert Altman and Roberto Benigni. They have all returned for the third time, and the cast's work as an ensemble is what makes Les Bronzés exceptional, says Jugnot: "Despite all the achievements of our independent careers, being part of this group...