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Cocteau, Jean - zhäN kôktōˈ, 1889–1963, French writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He experimented audaciously in almost every artistic medium, becoming a leader of the French avant-garde in the 1920s. His first great success was the novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), which he made into a film in 1950. Surrealistic fantasy suffuses his films and many of his


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    Jean Cocteau: A Biography » Read Now

    by Margaret Crosland. 238 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Jean Cocteau Jean COCTEAU A Biography by Margaret Crosland New York 1956 Alfred A...237 Index follows page 238 Illustrations Jean Cocteau Frontispiece Photograph by Jane...
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    Age of Surrealism (Chap. VII "Cocteau: The Theatre") » Read Now

    by Wallace Fowlie. 208 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...which is the main part of the poem; and a short detached lyric spoken by St. John the Baptist, called Cantique de saint Jean . The overture was written after the first...
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    20th Century French Drama ("Cocteau" begins on p. 47) » Read Now

    by David I. Grossvogel. 378 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Parisian stage at the time, Jean Cocteau Parade can be viewed as an experiment...before the First World War when Jean Cocteau was in his early twenties, and...projection...
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    Dionysus in Paris: Guide to Contemporary French Theater (1960) (Chap. 2 "Cocteau") » Read Now

    by Wallace Fowlie. 320 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...MID-CENTURY FRENCH POETS , JOURNALS OF JEAN COCTEAU , St.- John Perses SEAMARKS...tragedy which they demonstrate, Jean Cocteau will survive as a French writer...La...
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    Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama (Chap. 6 "Ambiguity and the Supernatural in Cocteau's La Machine Infernale") » Read Now

    by Patrick D. Murphy, Marshall B. Tymn. 248 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland...
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    Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Chap. 20 "Shape-Shifting, Vampires, and the Oedipus Myth: Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine") » Read Now

    by Allienne R. Becker. 212 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture. Highlights include artwork by Edward Carlos and the essay Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by internationally acclaimed...
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    Film and the Critical Eye (Chap. 10 "Beauty and the Beast: Directed by Jean Cocteau") » Read Now

    by Dennis Denitto, William Herman. 548 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...HERMAN Acknowledgment CHAPTER 10. JEAN COCTEAU. Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau, translated by Ronald Duncan. Excerpts reprinted...from chapters in this book. In analyzing...
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    Gender and French Cinema (Chap. 5 "For Our Eyes Only: Body and Sexuality in Reverse Motion in the Films of Jean Cocteau") » Read Now

    by Alex Hughes, James S. Williams. 296 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This book opens up the history of twentieth-century French cinema from the silent era to the present day by exploring the key role of gender and sexual politics. A much-needed sequel to Berg's bestselling Gender and German Cinema, the volume tackles such questions as:? What role did the female voice...
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    Imps of the Perverse: Gay Monsters in Film (Chap. 3 "Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger, and Jean Genet") » Read Now

    by Michael William Saunders. 154 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Hollywood movies often portray gay people as being in some sense monstrous. This volume focuses on several filmmakers who have used the trope of the homosexual as monster in a way that subverts traditional cinema. Their movies reveal that the monster can be powerful and attractive, thereby showing...
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    Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall (Chap. 14 "Autour de Cocteau, or the Uses of Popular Music") » Read Now

    by Steven Moore Whiting. 596 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music...
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    The Forged Feature: Toward a Poetics of Uncertainty: New and Selected Essays ("Jean Cocteau: A Dog, a Cab, a House" begins on p. 211) » Read Now

    by Ben Belitt. 284 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ôSpellbinding book. . . . The essays deserve to be read and reread at the slowest, most appreciative pace possible.ö -Boston Review The scope of The Forged Feature is two-fold: to bring together a representative selection of critical essays bearing on Belitt's interests as poet, critic, teacher...
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    A Guide to Contemporary French Literature: From Valery to Sartre (1957) » Read Now

    by Wallace Fowlie. 320 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Beyond the enigmatical sentence spoken to Jean Delay by Gide just before his death...Francois Mauriae, of Jouhandeau and of Cocteau. Young Mauriac introduced himself...

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