Après le visage, les seins ou les fesses, le sexe féminin est l'un des nouveaux territoires de la chirurgie esthétique. La nymphoplastie de réduction consiste à réduire la taille des petites lèvres de la vulve à des fins esthétiques ou de confort. Sara Piazza, psychologue clinicienne, sonde cette pratique. Esquissant d'abord une histoire des actes chirurgicaux sur le sexe féminin, elle convoque ensuite un ensemble de représentations de la vulve, de l'histoire de l'art à celles, plus contem...

Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise is the first book to examine the films of Jim Jarmusch from a sound-oriented perspective. Exploring the director’s extensive filmography, including Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down By Law (1986), Dead Man (1995) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Sara Piazza identifies the three essential acoustic elements that structure film: music, words and noise. Through this unique reading, she reveals how Jarmusch cr...

Bloomsbury presents The Moonlit Piazza by Annabelle Thorpe, read by Sara Alexander.Hidden loves and dangerous secrets may be uncovered as suspicion and lies swirl around trattoria Casa Maria and the Nazis tighten their grip on power in Italy in the powerful follow-up to Annabelle Thorpe's The Village Trattoria.Family-run Casa Maria is the beating heart of beautiful Amatino in Umbria. But now it is under Nazi control, to the fury of matriar...

Bloomsbury presents The Village Trattoria by Annabelle Thorpe, read by Sara Alexander.Italy 1943The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria.Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take over the trattoria from Elena one day. But instead it is charismatic, unpredictable Giorgio Capaldi who has inherited it and now arrives from Rome to run ...