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Articles by Emilie Bickerton
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Paper Empires
in NLR 76, July-August 2012, pp. 151-160
Subjects: France , Media
Emilie Bickerton on Thierry Discepolo, La Trahison des éditeurs. The Hexagon’s ‘quality’ book trade skewered by a leading radical publisher.
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The Mage of Lake Geneva
in NLR 68, March-April 2011, pp. 151-158
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Cinema
Emilie Bickerton on Antoine de Baecque, Godard, biographie. Life and work of Europe’s greatest living visual artist.
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Sarkozy's Fifth Column
in NLR 47, September-October 2007, pp. 143-152
Subjects: France , Media
Emilie Bickerton on Serge Halimi, Les Nouveaux chiens de garde. Polemical attack on the French media as choristers of the new liberal order. Does Sarkozy’s victory mean the electorate is finally in tune?
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Adieu to Cahiers
in NLR 42, November-December 2006, pp. 69-97
Subjects: Cinema , France
Life-cycle of Cahiers du cinéma. The trajectory of the pre-eminent film journal, from cine-clubs of Liberated Paris to masterpieces of the New Wave, barricades to the pensée unique, tracked against broader changes in French intellectual culture.
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The Camera Possessed
in NLR 27, May-June 2004, pp. 49-63
Subjects: Anthropology , Cinema
Extraordinary career of Jean Rouch—surrealist, engineer, anthropologist, cinéaste—synthesizing the gains of Vertov and Flaherty, to take his camera inside the taboo. In Abidjan and Paris, ethnographical films appropriated by their subjects as springboard for the New Wave.
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