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...Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir to raise awareness of the negative effects of modern culture, specifically its attitudes toward aging. Her previous books, Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife and Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel, both focus on popular misconceptions of aging...
...ruling is only the latest hurdle for Jeunet, who has spent more then ten years trying to film A Very Long Engagement, based on Sebastian Japrisot’s best-selling novel. The series of blows in Jeunet’s own home country is particularly absurd given that, aside from an outstanding performance by American actress Jodie Foster, the film is utterly and beautifully French. In fact, her inclusion in the film is obviously the exception to the rule: Jeunet had been adamant that the movie be filmed in French, by a French cast and crew, in France...
...novel was also perfect for him: Jeunet had always been drawn to World War I and 1920s Paris, and he felt that the beautiful story was an artful combination of his passions. To testify to his interest in the period, Jeunet recalls having a feeling of déjà vu when on set in the trenches, speculating that “maybe I died...
...Power Game, a new novel by former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph Nye curiously inverts the old adage about truth being stranger than fiction: this time the fiction has become true...
...career academic who got involved in national politics—Nye brings a new and luminous perspective to this type of fiction. By turning from his academic writings (exemplified by his similarly themed, but much differently constructed Soft Power: the Means to Success in World Politics) to a novel he has tried to take a different angle on Washington dealings...