15 résultats pour "fantasy"
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Le roman de science-fiction (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)
fantasy "· la " dark fantasy "· le " sword and sorcery " -, est. malgré sa diversité, le plus souvent rattaché à la science-fiction : d'une part , parce que les différentes branches ont toutes les mêmes racines ; d 'autre part , parce qu'elles sont souvent pratiquées par les mêmes auteurs . Simplemen~ dans la fantasy, la science officielle de la SF est remplacée par la magie conçue comme science occulte aussi puissante et exacte que l'officielle...
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MAC DONALD : Mist Fantasy
MAC DONALD James E. H. Mist Fantasy Né en 1873 Mort en 1932 James E. H. MacDonald peut être considéré comme le théoricien du "Groupe des Sept", fondé en 1920 . Arbres , lacs, rochers et forêts de la nature canadienne devinrent le creuset d'une recherche de l'identité nationale reflé tant la prise de conscience passionnée d'un territoire, sur lequel soufflait un vent d'opti misme au début du X:Xe siècle. A partir de la...
- Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter, who produced mostly small, highly personal self-portraits using elements of fantasy and a style inspired by native popular art.
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Psychoanalysis.
A cornerstone of modern psychoanalytic theory and practice is the concept of anxiety, which institutes appropriate mechanisms of defense against certain dangersituations. These danger situations, as described by Freud, are the fear of abandonment by or the loss of the loved one (the object), the risk of losing the object's love,the danger of retaliation and punishment, and, finally, the hazard of reproach by the superego. Thus, symptom formation, character and impulse disorders, andperversions,...
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Jazz
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Joshua Redman
Saxophonist Joshua Redman, a graduate of Harvard University, became a fast-rising star in jazz in the 1990s.
performed a highly produced, jazz-inspired form of blues that was popular in traveling minstrel shows and vaudeville. Thisexample is from the song “St. Louis Blues,” written by American composer and trumpet player W. C. Handy in 1914 andrecorded by Smith in 1925."St. Louis Blues" performed by Bessie Smith, from The Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Cat.# Riverside RB-005) Riverside Records under master license to Fantasy, Inc. All rightsreserved./Frank DriggsCollection/Archive Photos Jazz is ro...
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American Music
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American Music, the folk, popular, and classical music of the United States--created by American-born or American-trained composers, or originating in American
culture, or written primarily for American audiences.
The country's first permanent orchestra was the New York Philharmonic Society, founded in 1842. Among the first symphonic and operatic composers the mostprominent was William Henry Fry, who composed the first opera by an American ( Leonora, 1845). Fry is best remembered, however, for four symphonies written in the 1850s and 1860s. George F. Bristow wrote the first opera on an American theme; his Rip Van Winkle was performed in New York City in 1855. Town bands, a popular form of community mu...
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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg
The imaginative films of Steven Spielberg are known for their technical creativity and memorable characters.
Courtesy of Everett Collection Spielberg teamed up with writer-producer George Lucas in the 1980s to make the action-adventure Indiana Jones film series: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Other directorial projects during this period included the science-fiction fantasy E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial , at the time the highest-grossing film ever made; The Color Purple (1985), a drama based on the novel...
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Indian Music
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Classical Dance of South India
The southern Indian kathakali is a dance drama that dates from the 17th century.
Sangita Ratnakara, was written in the 13th century. However, subsequent writers tended to focus on the emotional connotations of individual ragas, associating them with moods, performance times, colors, and deities, and grouping them in terms of families. The modern theoretical system began in the 16th century, when ragasbegan to be classified according to scale—72 in the Karnāṭak system and 10 principal ones in the Hindustani. The 72 mela, as the Karn āṭak scales are called, are derived thro...
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Sciencefiction (Sprache & Litteratur).
Elemente des Genres häufig mit gesellschaftskritischen Aspekten. Der Biochemiker Isaac Asimov verfasste neben mehreren populärwissenschaftlichen Werken seit Ende derdreißiger Jahre auch wissenschaftlich äußerst fundierte Sciencefictionromane wie Ich, der Roboter (1950) oder die Trilogie Der Tausendjahresplan (1951). Zu den ersten Sciencefictionautoren, denen es gelang, die vorgegebenen Klischees der Gattung zu durchbrechen und besonders ihre literarischen Qualitäten weiterzuentwickeln, gehör...
- Final fantasy
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Spider-Man - bande dessinée.
trouver autre chose pour relancer l’intérêt du public pour les super-héros. Le scénariste Stan Lee a alors l’idée de créer un super-héros auquel le lecteur peut s’identifier, un super-héros avec les mêmes problèmes existentiels que lui, les mêmes préoccupations matérielles, et qui a du mal à trouver sa place dans la société : Spider-Man. La popularité du personnage doit beaucoup à l’étonnant contraste entre la personnalité anxieuse du jeune Peter Parker, et l’insolence et la répartie de Spider-M...
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Children's Literature
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Kate Greenaway's May Day
The delicate skill and graceful simplicity of English artist Kate Greenaway's illustrations delighted children and impressed
thinkers, including art critic John Ruskin.
With the development of vernacular literature, particularly after the invention of printing, more children's books appeared. The publications of the first English printer,William Caxton, included the Book of Curtesye (1477), a collection of rhymes that sets forth rules of conduct for a “goodly chylde.” Eight years later Caxton printed Le Morte d'Arthur (1469-1470; The Death of Arthur ) by English translator and compiler Sir Thomas Malory, which became the basis for later treatments of the A...
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Chinese Literature
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Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.
(Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...
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Chinese Literature
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Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.
(Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...
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Music
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World Music Tour
Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.
Duke EllingtonAmerican composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington endures as perhaps the most important pioneer in big-bandjazz. Ellington and his orchestra shared a special interdependent relationship: Using the band as his musical workshop,Ellington derived his orchestra’s tone coloring from the unique sound qualities of the group’s individual players. Thisparticular style was later dubbed the “Ellington Effect” by jazz arranger Billy Strayhorn, who also wrote one of the band’ssignature...