A history of the French new wave cinema [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Neupert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780872803321
• Autore: Neupert Richard John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-59471-0; 9786612594717; 0-299-21703-5
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xxix, 408 p. : ill
• Collana: Wisconsin studies in film
• Disciplina: 791.43/611
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - France - History - 20th century; New wave films - France - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous ed.: 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-394) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cultural contexts : where did the wave begin? -- Testing the water : Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, and Jean-Pierre Melville -- New stories, new sex : Roger Vadim and Louis Malle -- Claude Chabrol : launching a wave -- Francois Truffaut : the new wave's ringleader -- Jean-Luc Godard : Le petit soldat -- The cahiers du cinéma cohort : Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast -- On the new wave's Left Bank : Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda.

Canadians behind enemy lines, 1939-1945 [[electronic resource] /] / Roy MacLaren ; with a new preface

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780515403321
• Autore: MacLaren Roy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-283-13104-8; 9786613131041; 0-7748-5096-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.54/8641
• Soggetti: World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service - Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945 - Canada; World War, 1939-1945; Spies - Canada; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Service secret - Grande-Bretagne; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Service secret - Canada; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Espions - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1981.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the 2004 Edition -- Preface to the 1981 Edition -- Two Clandestine Organizations -- The Beginnings -- Recruitment of Canadians -- Special Operations Executive -- The First Canadian Agents into France -- Victims -- Playing the Radio Game -- The Executions -- Survivors -- The Triumph of the Aged and Redundant -- D-Day -- Assignments from Algiers -- Yugoslavia -- The Balkans and Italy -- Asia -- Sarawak -- Burma -- Malaya -- M.I.9 -- Escape and Evasion -- Dieppe and Beyond -- The Cross-Channel Ferry -- The Mediterranean and Asia -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Frogmen in Burma -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: During the Second World War, Canadians found themselves behind enemy lines in Europe and Asia. Not all were ill-fated airmen, shot down in the fury of battle. Some were there by design, as volunteers ; who risked their lives in extremely hazardous assignments. Almost one hundred Canadians served the Allied forces by passing as locals in occupied countries. At the behest of two British secret services, these men made language and custom their costumes and wove themselves into the social fabric of France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Burma, Malaya, and Sarawak. They risked their lives assisting resistance groups in sabotage and ambush missions or in smuggling Allied airmen out of occupied territories. Quiet heroes of the war, these bold Canadians helped to make the brutal and unrelenting warfare of the underground a potent weapon in the Allied arsenal. Out of print for more than two decades, this bestselling book recognizes the unique contribution of these individuals to the underground war effort. It is also a study of unstinting personal courage in the face of overwhelming odds.