“Life Would Never Feel This Good Again”: The Use of Pastiche in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End (2013) by Diana Ortega Martin

“…Moreover, the exploration of nostalgia and the past as places of retreat, as well as pastiche as a device of comedic criticism, enable Wright to offer a portrait of Englishness as struggling to recover its identity amidst a turbulent and apocalyptic time.…”
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Le jardin comme post-paysage et projection imaginée by Jean-Simon DesRochers

“…The analysis of post-landscape allow us to precise the relationship of humans with their perception of the environment and the interactions they wish to promote, but mostly, it presents a portrait of the relation between humans and the perception of their own conscience.…”
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Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction by Joseph Belletante

“…In a post-critic perspective, this article offers a portrait of human “states of mind” that will restitute the spectator his symbolic autonomy, through singular solitudes or the loneliness of a group as is shown by four television series that are no longer in production (Friends, The Sopranos, The West Wing and Ally McBeal) in order to allow a global interpretation and that correspond to the main genres of fiction broadcasted by the American network (comedy, drama, and dramedy).…”
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La matière des images dans The Duchess of Malfi by Anne-Valérie Dulac

“…Much like the poisoned portrait in The White Devil, some of the painted and sculpted images that appear in The Duchess of Malfi seem endowed with equally terrifying power over whoever looks at them. …”
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A Day in the Life of the American Woman: Construction and Mediation of the “American Woman” in Photographic Essays by Jane Bayly

“…In 2005, fifty women photographers participated in a project to capture the everyday lives of over seventy American women on the same day in order to provide a composite portrait of the modern American woman in the twenty-first century. …”
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KHAWARIJISME: PERGULATAN POLITIK SEKTARIAN DALAM BINGKAI WACANA AGAMA by Fahmy Farid Purnama

“…As a sect that emerged since attahkim, Khawarij represents a portrait of an affair relation between power and religious discourse (theological discourse). …”
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Le rapport à l’élève idéal d’enseignants du premier degré : quelles répercussions sur la scolarisation des élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers ? by Déborah Saunier

“…Our results have enabled us to draw a portrait of the ideal pupil and to highlight contradictions between some of his or her characteristics and some profiles of pupils with special educational needs.…”
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Entre « chic » et « chien » : les séductions de la Parisienne, de Jean-Jacques Rousseau à Yves Saint-Laurent by Emmanuelle Rétaillaud-Bajac

“…Elaborated in the context of a monarchist society opening up to modern capitalism, this portrait became more complex and visible in the following century as the city itself changed very fast along with the explosion of the popular press and shifts in symbolic and aesthetic regimes. …”
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Captation spéculaire et mise en abyme dans le film Jane Eyre de Franco Zeffirelli by Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard

“…The director thus emphasizes the question of representation and its various metafictional modes as Jane Eyre—the movie— can be seen as a portrait of the artist. Drawing can be regarded as the cinematic equivalent of narration in Charlotte Brontë’s work and also as empowerment for the female subject who ultimately becomes a creator.…”
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Can Brexit be photographed? Six photographic projects raising critical questions about Britain’s exit from the European Union (2016-2020) by Mathilde Bertrand

“…Echoes and correspondences between them help paint the portrait of a divided United Kingdom while reasserting strongly the values of inclusion, tolerance and diversity that have been damaged in this difficult period.…”
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Photography and Archive Fever in Richard Kalinoski’s Beast on the Moon (1995) by Laurence Petit

“…The play, which addresses the 1915 Armenian genocide, revolves around an object which, along with an old coat, works as the one and only familial “archive”, namely a central family photograph whose heads were actually cut out by Aram Tomasian after he witnessed the terrible massacre of his entire Armenian family and fled to America. The family portrait, which in the course of the play suffers both a decapitation and an indirect crucifixion but somehow manages to survive, becomes the repository not just of individual destinies – or of one individual’s destiny – but of the diasporic fate of a whole people, the Armenians.…”
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Brain Drain by Mark Cripsin Miller

“…Ce premier numéro de TransatlanticA, du portrait de Tocqueville à la peinture américaine du XIXe siècle exposée à Giverny, lui fait une large place.…”
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The Picture of Dorian Gray : la passion du réel/la passion du semblant by Annie Ramel

“…Dorian’s passion is not so much for beauty and art, but for the decomposing portrait, its grey and amorphous matter, the « palpitating life substance prior to symbolic mortification » from which he derives exquisite enjoyment.…”
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The image of an ideal politician in the minds of Russian youth by A. A. Komarova

“…In order to create a portrait of an ideal political leader, respondents were offered several lists of qualities and characteristics that, in the opinion of young people, a modern politician should possess. …”
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Adapter les mesures préventives de santé et de sécurité pour les travailleurs qui cumulent des précarités : les obligations d’équité by Sylvie Gravel, Katherine Lippel, Daniel Vergara, Jessica Dubé, Jean-François Ducharme, Gabrielle Legendre

“…We have observed that : a) it is difficult to draw a portrait of the health of these workers because : b) they are not specifically identified within companies and receive no special attention ; c) they are often hired in non-priority sectors where rigorous monitoring is lacking ; and d) they are excluded from OHS practices because they are only temporarily employed by these companies. …”
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AN EVOCATION OF ION VIDU 150 YEARS AFTER HIS BIRTH. HIS ACTIVITY AS A COMPOSER AND A CONDUCTOR by Ion-Alexandru ARDEREANU

“…Thus, in this commemorative year, this paper sets out to highlight yet again not a general portrait of Ion Vidu (in which case the risk of a shallow approach would be very high), but the two most common dimensions of his personality: Ion Vidu, the composer and the conductor. …”
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A fragmented world: mapping the global extent of Anthropogenic Landscape Fragmentation by Gustavo Romanillos, Guido Robazza, Filippo Lovato

“…The objective of this study is to offer a global portrait of this phenomenon through a map. Following a methodology developed in previous studies, this research builds on the calculation of a widely used index for measuring Anthropogenic Landscape Fragmentation, the effective mesh size (meff). …”
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ON THE ISSUE OF NATIONAL PECULIARITIES OF MODERNIZATION OF THE RUSSIAN POLITICAL ELITE IN THE XVII CENTURY by D. A. Filimonov

“…It is necessary to be aware of what its portrait was like at the beginning of the transformations, what processes formed it in this way. …”
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G. P. FEDOTOV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNING ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The paper analyses the portrait of the Soviet manager given by G.P. Fedotov. …”
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Les premier·es agrégé·es d’éducation physique et sportive en 1983. by Loïc Szerdahelyi, Anne Roger

“…The article also presents a collective portrait of the first PE ‘‘agrégé·es’’, most of whom already worked in the field, and, more specifically, the men involved in training or research networks, who were often located in the Paris region and were charged with driving future transformations in PE.…”
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