Keith Reader
Biographic Data
| ID | 765405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Reader |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Reader |
| SIGNATURE | READER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London Institute in Paris |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Freeze Peach’: A Fruitful Formulation or a Recipe for Heated Discord? Followed by A Response to Keith Reader's ‘Freeze Peach’
Keith Reader's brief, unfinished article ‘Freeze Peach’ situates contemporary controversies surrounding free speech in relation to material and economic concerns. Ian James's response draws attention to the way Keith does this by bringing together four key figures of late twentieth-century philosophy and theory: Louis Althusser, Jean-François Lyotard, Terry Eagleton and Stanley Fish. Ian argues that the conjugation of Marx-inspired theory with th…
The Unheimliche Hameau: Nationality and Culture in The Moberly/Jourdain Affair
The Moberly-Jourdain affair involved two female Oxford dons who, in 1901 on a visit to the palace and grounds of Versailles, believed that they had encountered the ghosts of Marie-Antoinette and some of her retinue in the Hameau she had had built there to play shepherdess games. The two women’s report of their experience attracted much attention at the time, though it seems all but certain that they had simply overinterpreted everyday personages …
Jean Eustache’s La Maman et la putain: A film maudit twice over
This article examines the reasons why the label of film maudit is all too applicable to Jean Eustache’s nowadays little-known masterpiece La Maman et la putain, offering a succinct overview of the director’s career and the film as well as situating it within the time of its making and release and analysing its subsequent distributional vicissitudes. Along with a brief scrutiny of what exactly might be meant by the term film maudit, it offers an a…
Civilisation. Comment nous sommes devenus américains
Civilisation. Comment nous sommes devenus américains." Modern & Contemporary France, 26(2), pp. 212–213
Radical French Thought and the Return of the ‘Jewish Question’
Radical French Thought and the Return of the ‘Jewish Question’." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(2), pp. 231–232
Dictionnaire amoureux de François Mitterrand
Une traversée de Paris
Truffaut & Godard
The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard
Massively more written about than viewed nowadays, the work of Jean-Luc Godard continues to stimulate more analytic and critical interest than that of virtually any other living film-maker. The USP
France and the Middle East: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary France
The Querelle Between Alain Badiou and Éric Marty, Contrasted With Régis Debray's Lettre Ouverte to Élie Barnavi and Barnavi's Response
This article contrasts two major debates in book form on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, so central to French political discussion today—the ‘quarrel’ between Alain Badiou (with Cécile Winter, in Circonstances 3: Portées du mot ‘juif’) and Éric Marty (Une querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe), and the debate between Régis Debray and Élie Barnavi (À un ami israélien, by Debray with a response from Barnavi). The Badiou/Marty exchange is hostile…
The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s
This article looks at representations of the banlieue in the cinema of the 1930s – a period before the term banlieue was synonymous with deprivation and violence as, especially since Matthieu Kassowitz’s 1995 film La Haine, it has subsequently tended to become. The work of Claude Autant-Lara and Maurice Lehmann ( Fric-Frac, Circonstances atténuantes) and that of Anatole Litvak ( Cœur de Lilas) receive close attention along with two more widely kn…
Le Style cinématographique d'Alain Resnais, de Hiroshima mon amour (1959) aux Herbes folles (2009)
Le Style cinématographique d'Alain Resnais, de Hiroshima mon amour (1959) aux Herbes folles (2009) ." Modern & Contemporary France, 21(3), pp. 413–414
Israël a déménagé/Un état commun entre le Jourdain et la mer
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World." Modern & Contemporary France, 19(3), pp. 368–369
L'antisémitisme partout: Aujourd'hui en France
Alain Badiou & Eric Hazan, Paris: La Fabrique, 2011, 64 pp, 10.00 €, 978 23587 20182 This pamphlet, the joint work of probably France's best-known living philosopher and a leading Left-wing publish
Writing the City, Writing the Quartier: Work-in-Progress on the Bastille Area of Paris
Consuming Culture: The Arts of the French Table
Edited by John West-Sooby. Cranbury, University of Delaware Press. 2004. iv+172 pp. Pb £20.50. The discourses of food and gastronomy in France have recently begun to receive a degree of critical attention, particularly in the United States. Schehr and Weiss's French Food: On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture and Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson's Accounting for Taste (see FS, lx (2006), 166–67) are two noteworthy recent examples. West-Soo…
Reframing Difference: ‘Beur’ and ‘banlieue’ Film-Making in France
Journal Article Reframing Difference: ‘Beur’ and ‘banlieue’ Film-Making in France Get access Keith Reader Keith Reader Glasgow University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 60, Issue 3, JULY 2006, Page 419, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knl103 Published: 01 July 2006
The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair
Gabrielle Russier’s persecution by the French state and its apparatuses for her love affair with a much younger male pupil, culminating in her suicide in 1969, is a now largely forgotten but still important part of the history of 1968 and its aftermath. The article retraces the affaire and its reproductions (which include a feature film starring Annie Girardot), and considers its implications for questions of power, desire, privacy, policing and …
Houellebecq, sperme et sang
By Marie-Louise Clément. (Approches littéraires). Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003. 247 pp. Pb €21.00. Michel Houellebecq will probably earn at least a footnote in French literary history as the first writer to have provoked as much debate on the web as in more conventional print media — an earnest of his feeling for the Zeitgeist in some eyes, a symptom of his enduring evanescence in others. This — not counting Dominique Noguez's Houellebecq, en fait wh…
French Cinema during the Occupation Years
Journal Article French Cinema during the Occupation Years Get access Keith Reader Keith Reader Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 385–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/58.3.385 Published: 01 July 2004
Paragraph - the Unauthorized Biography
Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture
More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include:* advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth cultureEntries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries ar…
Reframing Difference: ‘Beur’ and ‘banlieue’ Film-Making in France
Journal Article Reframing Difference: ‘Beur’ and ‘banlieue’ Film-Making in France Get access Keith Reader Keith Reader Glasgow University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 60, Issue 3, JULY 2006, Page 419, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knl103 Published: 01 July 2006
The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s
This article looks at representations of the banlieue in the cinema of the 1930s – a period before the term banlieue was synonymous with deprivation and violence as, especially since Matthieu Kassowitz’s 1995 film La Haine, it has subsequently tended to become. The work of Claude Autant-Lara and Maurice Lehmann ( Fric-Frac, Circonstances atténuantes) and that of Anatole Litvak ( Cœur de Lilas) receive close attention along with two more widely kn…
French cinema review of the year 1994
The Scene of Action is DIfferent
Journal Article The Scene of Action is DIfferent Get access Keith Reader, Keith Reader Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gilles Deleuze's Gilles Deleuze's Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 28, Issue 3, Summer 1987, Pages 98–103, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/28.3.98 Published: 01 July 1987
Women and the cultural industries
New Means of Communication: New Questions for the Left
New Means of Communication: New Questions for the Left
Women and the cultural industries
The intellectuals: Notes towards a comparative study of their position in the social formations of France and Britain
Modern French Critical Theory and Its Impact on British Academic Life
Où Cela Vient-Il?’: Notes on Three Films by Robert Bresson
‘ 'OÙ CELA VIENT-IL?’: NOTES ON THREE FILMS BY ROBERT BRESSON Get access KEITH READER KEITH READER KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XL, Issue 4, October 1986, Pages 427–442, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XL.4.427 Published: 01 October 1986
Intellectuals and the Left in France Since 1968
The Place of Sociology
One theme that has run through this study has been the undermining of traditional disciplinary barriers by structuralist and post-structuralist modes of thought. We have seen how philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, history, and psychoanalysis mingle in the key texts of the period, to produce what Richard Rorty has described as the ‘new genre’ of theory.1 Almost entirely absent hitherto, however, has been the field of sociology — a surpri…
The Scene of Action is DIfferent
Journal Article The Scene of Action is DIfferent Get access Keith Reader, Keith Reader Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gilles Deleuze's Gilles Deleuze's Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 28, Issue 3, Summer 1987, Pages 98–103, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/28.3.98 Published: 01 July 1987
The getting of wisdom: Thoughts on William C. Dowling's Jameson, Althusser, Marx
Intellectuals and the Left in France Since 1968
- Disillusionment and the Role of the Intellectual in France - Intellectuals and Marxism since l968: Sartre - Intellectuals and Marxism since l968: The Structuralists - Intellectuals and Marxism since l968: Modes of Dissidence - The Politics of Feminism - Language, Power and Politics: The Work of Foucault and Deleuze - Language, Literature, Deconstruction and Politics - The 'New Philosophers' - The Place of Sociology - The 'Silence of the Left-Wi…
Bliss Was it in that Dawn
Journal Article Bliss Was it in that Dawn? Get access Keith Reader Keith Reader Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 30, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 66–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/30.3.66 Published: 01 July 1989
On the difficulty of writing about Simone Weil's La Pesanteur et la grâce
Intellectuals and the Left in France since 1968
Is there a story to tell
The May 1968 Events in France: Reproductions and Interpretations
The multiple impact of the May 1968 events in France is here reviewed and analysed, initially through a narrative account of the events themselves and then through a systematic survey of the various m
The ballad of the rue d Ulm gaol: Louis Althusser's L'Avenir dure longtemps
Althusser, Louis, L'Avenir dure longtemps suivi de Les faits: Autobiographies (Stock/IMEC, 1992), 356pp., 140F., ISBN 9 782234 024731
Cinematic representations of Paris: Vigo/Truffaut/Carax
(1993). Cinematic representations of Paris: Vigo/Truffaut/Carax. Modern & Contemporary France: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 409-415
Report on the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France France: Violence and conflict
From Maastricht to Versailles: Political review of the year (September 1992‐August 1993)
Joyeux anniversaire: The end of illusions
Baudrillard, J., L'Illusion de la fin ou la grève des événements (Galiliée, 1992), 170pp., 98F., ISBN 2 7186 0411 5 Bourdieu, P., ed., La Misère du monde (Seuil, Paris, 1993), 949pp., 160F., ISBN 2 02 019674 3 Debray, R., Un mot encore, cher Béré . . . (Arléa, Paris, 1993), 30pp., 20F., ISBN 2 86959 175 6
French cinema review of the year 1994
Les Mères de Lyon: Representations of women and cookery in France
Short notices
Almanach des Français, 2 vols (Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1994), 319pp. and 316pp., 544F. Charmasson T., Lelorrain, A.‐M. and Sonnet, M., Chronologie de l'histoire de France (PUF, 1994), 876pp., 179F., ISBN 2 13 046139 5 Conseil national de la vie associative, Les Associations à l'épreuve de la décen‐ . tralisation: Bilan 1991–1992 (La Documentation Française, 1993), 245pp., 145F., ISBN 2 11 002974 9 Council of Europe, Population: French‐English …
Film review of the year 1995
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge: Representations of youth and adolescence in pre-new-wave French cinema
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