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Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

By: David Clandfield,Pierre Perrault,Toronto International Film Festival Group

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Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

By: David Clandfield,Pierre Perrault,Toronto International Film Festival Group

One of the great exponents of the direct cinema style, Quebecois poet, essayist, and film-maker Pierre Perrault (1927-1999) began his documentary career in radio before joining the more traditional Ren’e Bonni’ere filming life in the lower St. Lawrence. In the 1960s he joined the National Film Board of Canada to shoot films in the new direct style, taking a small two-man crew into communities to reveal their beliefs and allegiances as they coped with social change. His legendary trilogy on the Ile-aux-Coudres opened with his most famous work, Pour la suite du monde (1963). Ostensibly a look at the local people’s effort to revive a traditional beluga hunt, it is actually the beginning of a lifelong inquiry into the relationship between community and national identity. This relationship emerges most clearly in the highly poetic Un pays sans bon sens! (1970), which brought Perrault into conflict with the NFB. The film was sidelined for many years. After a trip outside Quebec to Moncton to document francophone student unrest, Perrault made a second trilogy, this one in northwestern Quebec, showing the collapse of traditional farming communities relocated to the Abitibi during the Great Depression. Further explorations took Perrault to the northern interiors of Quebec, the hunting woods of Maniwaki, and to the tall ships retracing Jacques Cartier’s voyages of discovery. The triology culminated in the desolate arctic landscapes of the mysterious muskox, and two of his most haunting creations. The first major publication on Perrault in English, Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary discusses not only the world that Perrault’s cinema revealed but a revolution in film-making from a great poet. Co-written and edited by David Clandfield, Principal of New College in the University of Toronto, Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary also features contributions from scholar Jerry White, as well as translations of some of Perrault’s writings on film. Published by the Toronto International Film Festival. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.

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Indiana University Press

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0968913237

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9780968913239

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

By: Jean-Pierre Boulé,David Platten

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Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

By: Jean-Pierre Boulé,David Platten

Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.

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265

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Liverpool University Press

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085323843X

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9780853238430

Hawksmoor's London Churches

Architecture and Theology

By: Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

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Hawksmoor's London Churches

Architecture and Theology

By: Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

Six remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. In this book, architectural historian Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey examines these designs as a coherent whole—a single masterpiece reflecting both Hawksmoor's design principles and his desire to reconnect, architecturally, with the "purest days of Christianity.

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212

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University of Chicago Press

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0226173038

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9780226173030

Analogical Thinking in Architecture

Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment

By: Jean-Pierre Chupin

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Analogical Thinking in Architecture

Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment

By: Jean-Pierre Chupin

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, design thinking has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended in order to think outside the box. This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by analogical thinking-an agile way of reasoning in which think the unknown through the familiar. The book is organized into four case studies: the first reviews analogical models that have been at the heart of design thinking representations from the 1960s to the present day; the second investigates the staying power of biological analogies; the third explores the paradoxical imaginary of "analogous cities" as a means of integrating contemporary architecture with heritage contexts; while the fourth unpacks the critical and theoretical potential of linguistic metaphors and visual comparisons in architectural discourse. Comparing views on the role of analogies and metaphors by prominent voices in architecture and related disciplines from the 17th century to the present, the book shows how the analogical world of the project is revealed as a wide-open field of creative and cognitive interactions. These visual and textual operations are explained through 36 analogical plates which can be read as an inter-text demonstrating how analogy has the power to reconcile design and theories.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350343633

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9781350343634

Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

By: David Clandfield,Pierre Perrault,Toronto International Film Festival Group

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By: David Clandfield,Pierre Perrault,Toronto International Film Festival Group

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Indiana University Press

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Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

Hawksmoor's London Churches

Hawksmoor's London Churches

Analogical Thinking in Architecture

Analogical Thinking in Architecture

Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

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