Manon Fabre

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Ray Ventura and His Collegians: from imitation to a Franco-American hybrid

In the early 1930s, Ray Ventura and His Collegians recorded in Paris covers of hit songs from...

Anaïs Fléchet, Martin Guerpin, Philip Nord, Philippe Gumplowicz

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Americanization through the Arts

This collection focuses on analyses of artworks and brings together articles that examine the...

Charlotte Servel

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Soupault and USA: cinema and Surrealist poetry in the Roaring Twenties

In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Richard Cándida Smith, Olivier Compagnon

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Intellectuals

This section examines how the movements of thinkers and ideas around the Atlantic basin produced...

Jacques Pothier

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Littérature

Les littératures atlantiques ont été le véhicule privilégié de l'histoire culturelle du Monde...

Yannick Séité

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Can one « jazz » the French language ?

The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion,...

Edward Berenson

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Levitt-villes in France

In 1965, William Levitt, America’s largest home builder and creator of the famous Levittowns,...

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

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Blanche and Alfred Knopf: circulating transatlantic literature

In 1915, the Knopfs founded a publishing company focusing on translations of contemporary European...

David Bellos

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Romain Gary: How to Be Someone Else

The novelist Romain Gary had two connected but quite distinct literary careers, in two languages and...

Catherine Rudent

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Les années yéyé : des chansons américaines sous-titrées ?

Au début des années 1960, les chansons yéyé sont réputées responsables d'une irruption massive de...