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62 articles
Laurent Martin
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Francophonie: A Historical Word, A Contemporary Idea

The word Francophonie was created at the end of the 19th century in the context of French...

Anaïs Fléchet, Martin Guerpin, Philip Nord, Philippe Gumplowicz
fr en

Americanization through the Arts

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

Steve Hagimont
fr en

Spas

In the eighteenth century, natural mineral springs spurred the emergence of tourism and played a...

Sophie Coudray
fr en

Theater of the Oppressed: intercontinental trajectories

From its 1950s roots in Brazil to its proliferation around the world, the history of Theatre of the...

Marcia Tosta Dias, Cauê Martins
pt

Fonografia digital e circulação musical transatlântica

O artigo apresenta os principais processos envolvidos na produção e circulação da música gravada...

Jan Baetens
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The photo novel: a Latin genre

From 1947 to 1968, the long-scorned photo novel was one of Europe and Latin America’s most popular...

Mariana Villaça
pt en

Instituto Cubano del Arte e Indústria Cinematográficos

ICAIC was the first cultural body created in Cuba after the Revolution in accordance with Law 169,...

Marcelo Prioste
pt

O imaginário revolucionário no cinema de Santiago Álvarez Román

Santiago Álvarez Román (1919-1998) foi um cineasta cubano, diretor dos Noticieros ICAIC, cinejornal...

Loïc Artiaga
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The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammed Ali versus George Foreman (October 30, 1974)

The Muhammed Ali-George Foreman match for the world heavyweight title in Kinshasa was a “Black...

Loïc Artiaga
fr en

Boxing

Boxing is a major modern sport. Codified in England at the end of the eighteenth century, it became a...

Charlotte Gould
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L’exposition « Sensation » (Londres 1997- New York 2000) : scandales publics, financements...

Le voyage de Londres vers New York de l’exposition « Sensation », à la fin des années 1990, semblait...

Erin Nolan, Aimée Bessire
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Reimagining Todd Webb's Photographs of 1958 Colonial Africa

This paper charts the path of Todd Webb’s 1958 U.N.-commissioned photographs of colonial Africa across...

Diana Cooper-Richet
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Presse en langue étrangère

La presse en langue étrangère, publiée d'un côté comme de l'autre de l'Atlantique, a joué un rôle...

Anaïs Fléchet, Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Olivier Compagnon
fr en

Periodizing the Atlantic

A major challenge for the Transatlantic Cultures project has been creating a historical periodization...

Florencia Dansilio
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Le théâtre Off

Cet article retrace les cheminements transatlantiques de la notion de "théâtre off" des années 1940 à...

Emilia Chamone, Frederico Lyra de Carvalho, Carlos Sandroni
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Maracatus transatlânticos

Grupos típicos de Pernambuco, Brasil, os maracatus expressam através de música, dança e rituais,...

Tania Regina de Luca, Nelson Schapochnik
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Edição

A rubrica reúne textos que enfrentam o desafio de refletir sobre a rede transnacional que, sobretudo a...

Marcos Napolitano
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Transatlantic Cartographies of Popular Music in the Americas

Popular music is frequently analyzed through national ‘musical genres,’ consecrated through specific...

Vavy Pacheco Borges
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Ruy Guerra, the ‘travelling filmmaker’

Ruy Guerra (RG) was born on 22/08/1931 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), capital of the Portuguese...

José Luis Bendicho Beired
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Fernando Ortiz and the Transatlantic Exchange Network

Fernando Ortizs pioneering work established the foundations for the study of the black population in...

Anaïs Fléchet, Marcos Napolitano, Jean-Sébastien Noël
en

Music

Between the 18th and the 21st centuries, the musical transatlantic space has profoundly changed,...

Kenneth Weisbrode
en

The American Century

In 1941, the influential publisher Henry Luce declared the century “American.” The United States’ new...

Jessica Gienow-Hecht
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US Cultural Diplomacy

The Cold War was the heyday of state-orchestrated cultural diplomacy in the U.S., at a time when many...

Eduardo Morettin
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Cinema

The section approaches the historical and cultural practices that involve cinema in the transatlantic...

Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa
pt

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987) nasceu em Porto Novo (Benin). Estudou no Institut des hautes études...

James Naremore
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Orson Welles, Citizen of the World

Orson Welles was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but he often told interviewers that he was “...

Maud Quessard
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United States Information Agency

En 1953, la guerre froide pousse le président Eisenhower à créer une agence indépendante du...

Richard Cándida Smith
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Pan Americanism

The US-led Pan American Union, created in 1890, is generally understood as a form of soft power...

Julie Verlaine, Didier Aubert
fr en

Visual Arts

In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the...

Florencia Dansilio, Jean-Claude Yon
fr es en

Performing Arts

The Performing Arts section brings together articles examining the transatlantic exchange of objects,...

Ghislaine Arielle Nzouwe Nganso
fr en

Makossa

Born in Douala in the 1950s, and strongly influenced by Ghanaian highlife music, Congolese rumba and...

Laura De Oliveira
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Franklin Book Programs: The Cold War and US Cultural Imperialism

Franklin Book Programs was a non-governmental US program aimed at stimulating the publishing market...

Juliette Dumont, Alexandre Fontaine, Jean-Charles Geslot
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Education

Beginning in the 18th century, the field of education has been characterized by intense transatlantic...

Mateus Araujo
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Glauber Rocha

A dimensão transatlântica do projeto estético do cineasta brasileiro Glauber Rocha será discutida a...

Xavier Riondet, Samuel RENIER
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La réception française de la pensée de Dewey dans le champ éducatif

La pensée éducative de John Dewey a connu une réception contrastée au cours du siècle qui s’est écoulé...

Ignacio Del Valle Dávila
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Los Nuevos Cines

Usamos el concepto de “nuevos cines” para abordar un proceso que va desde mediados de los años...

Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Jean-Sébastien Noël
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Memories

Transatlantic memory and heritage evoke a permanent oscillation between universal and specific values,...

Mariana Villaça
pt

Revista Cine Cubano

A revista Cine Cubano, criada em 1960, promoveu por mais de quatro décadas a circulação de notícias e...

Tim Bergfelder
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Disaster and Progress in Cultural Representations of the Titanic

This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Titanic disaster in 1912 in literature, art, cinema, and...

Mariana de Moraes Silveira
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Transatlântico

Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste –...

Carolina Amaral de Aguiar
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The Transatlantic Voyages of Chris Marker

This article studies transatlantic networks established by film director Chris Marker. Whereas it...

Francisco Rodriguez-Jimenez
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American Studies: the Cultural Branch of U.S. Empire?

American Studies was meant to emancipate U.S. culture from its British tutelage. It became a tool of...

Francisco Martinho
pt en

Amália Rodrigues in Africa

Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was responsible for the popularization of fado in her own country and in...

Fabio Guilherme Poletto
pt en

Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz

The article investigates the phenomenon of Bossa Nova, its most relevant aesthetic traces and the...

Caio Gomes
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Nueva Canción

During the 1940s and 1950s, the arts became a symbolic battlefield and ‘folklore’ was understood as a...

Oliver Rick
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Cycling Across the Atlantic: A discussion of cycling culture in the Atlantic Region

Cycling has gone through standardization and modernization processes that have functionally brought...

Ivan Lima Gomes
pt en

Comics in Newspapers, Magazines and Books: a Transatlantic Panorama

An overview of the history of comics from a transatlantic perspective. It is focused on the cultural...

Alexsandro Silva
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Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Ducados, known as Sarah Maldoror, is considered to be the first black woman to make cinema in...

Cibele Barbosa
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Gilberto Freyre and the geopolitics of race: the transatlantic circulation of Casa-grande &...

How did Casa-grande & senzala , Gilberto Freyre's main work, navigate between different scenarios and...

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
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South Atlantic

South Atlantic is approached as a space of circulation over three distinct periods. The first begins...

Maria Ligia Coelho Prado, Valdir Donizete Santos Junior
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Robinson Crusoe

In 1719, Daniel Defoe published The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The story and the...

Juliette Dumont, Didier Aubert
fr en

Cultural Diplomacy from Propaganda to Soft Power

Either directly or through the non-governmental institutions and actors, states have also played a...

Jean-Yves Mollier
fr en

Transatlantic authors in European publishing after 1945

This article on the circulation of books in the transatlantic space starts with a historically datable...

Simon Perego
fr en

Yiddish: Language, Culture and Memory from the late 19th century to the present

From the late 19th century, the Yiddish language and culture had an intensely transatlantic moment...

Jean-Charles Geslot
fr en

Artistic Education and Artist Training

The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...

Clément Astruc
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Pelé and the world

From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, Pelé was the leading figure in football, a sport that...

Clara Bouveresse
fr en

Photographic agencies

Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...

Cécile Cottenet
fr en

Literary Agents

Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...

Anaïs Fléchet
pt fr en

Gilberto Gil

“I knew that music would be my language and that I would discover the world through it.” From the ...

Didier Aubert
en

Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti's Letter

Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...

Priscila Dorella
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Susan Sontag: uma intelectual pública

Judia, Susan Sontag nasceu em New York, estudou literatura, filosofia e teologia em renomadas...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Richard Cándida Smith, Olivier Compagnon
en

Intellectuals

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