Ruy Guerra, the ‘Travelling Filmmaker’
Ruy Guerra (RG) was born on 22/08/1931 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), capital of the Portuguese...
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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...
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Anni Albers ou les textiles modernes entre deux continents
L'exil d'Anni Albers (1899-1994) – artiste, designer textile et éducatrice - aux États-Unis en 1933...
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Women Artists across the Atlantic
This collection focuses on the women artists and mediators who have shaped the history of the...
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Los Nuevos Cines
Usamos el concepto de “nuevos cines” para abordar un proceso que va desde mediados de los años...
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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...
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Performing Arts
The Performing Arts section brings together articles examining the transatlantic exchange of objects,...
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Pan Americanism
The US-led Pan American Union, created in 1890, is generally understood as a form of soft power...
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“C’era un Ragazzo...Era un muchacho...Era um garoto...”: uma balada pop italiana e seus ecos...
“C’era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones” gravada originalmente em italiano,...
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Le revival de la musique bretonne : une déclinaison locale des contre-cultures américaines
Au tournant des années des années 1960 et 1970, un mouvement revivaliste a produit en Bretagne ce que...
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Levitt-villes in France
In 1965, William Levitt, America’s largest home builder and creator of the famous Levittowns,...
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Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, marraine de l’Amérique?
C’est dans la ville lorraine de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, en France, que le mot America fut édité pour la...
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Modernist Photography in Mexico: Modotti’s Letter
Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...
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Le théâtre communautaire argentin : réseaux et circulations
Le mouvement du théâtre communautaire argentin, né dans les années 1980, est aujourd’hui une référence...
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Solitude, du roman au musée : l’œuvre mémorielle d’André Schwarz-Bart
Figure légendaire de l’histoire antillaise et de l’univers des plantations, Solitude, l’héroïne du...
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Americanization through the Arts
This collection focuses on analyses of artworks and brings together articles that examine the...
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Photographic Agencies
Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...
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Curating the Black Atlantic: An Overview of Exhibitions, 1989-2022
As the follow-on from a class project, this article presents a critical history of art exhibitions on...
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Transatlântico
Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste –...
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Cultural Diplomacy from Propaganda to Soft Power
Either directly or through the non-governmental institutions and actors, states have also played a...
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The “Sensation” Exhibition (London 1997-New York 2000): Public Scandals, Private Funding
When the “Sensation” exhibition travelled from London to New York in 1999, it seemed as though young...
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From Public Schools to the Pampas: Elements for an Atlantic History of Rugby
Created at around the same time as football/soccer, rugby spread out from England along the pathways...
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Johnny Weissmuller
From swimming pools (five Olympic gold medals) to Hollywood, including his appearance in Tarzan,...
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Off Theater
This article traces the transatlantic movements of the idea of alternative theater from the 1940s to...
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L’Alliance française sur le continent américain
Tournée vers le continent américain dès son origine, l’Alliance française développa ses propres...
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Une géographie sociale et culturelle du baseball
La diffusion du baseball hors du pays qui l’a vu naître peut paraître assez déroutante: très faible...
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L’orientalisme hispano-américain
L’orientalisme hispano-américain est une dimension de la production littéraire hispanique depuis 1810....
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Littérature
Les littératures atlantiques ont été le véhicule privilégié de l'histoire culturelle du Monde...
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Octavio Paz
If there is one Latin-American writer who embodies the fertility of intellectual and aesthetic...
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La Maison de l’Afrique à la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
Créée au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Maison de la France d’Outre-mer, devenue Maison de l...
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The 1972 Olympics Basketball Final between the Soviet Union and the United States
The game marked a turning point in the sport’s history on both sides of the Atlantic. Due to...
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Maradona: ídolo local, héroe global
Maradona es probablemente el personaje más importante de la cultura popular argentina entre finales...
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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...
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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...
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Spas
In the eighteenth century, natural mineral springs spurred the emergence of tourism and played a...
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Theater of the Oppressed: Intercontinental Trajectories
From its 1950s roots in Brazil to its proliferation around the world, the history of Theatre of the...
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Fonografia digital e circulação musical transatlântica
O artigo apresenta os principais processos envolvidos na produção e circulação da música gravada...
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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...
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Instituto Cubano del Arte e Indústria Cinematográficos
ICAIC was the first cultural body created in Cuba after the Revolution in accordance with Law 169,...
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O imaginário revolucionário no cinema de Santiago Álvarez Román
Santiago Álvarez Román (1919-1998) foi um cineasta cubano, diretor dos Noticieros ICAIC, cinejornal...
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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...
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Boxing
Boxing is a major modern sport. Codified in England at the end of the eighteenth century, it became a...
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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...
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Periodizing the Atlantic
A major challenge for the Transatlantic Cultures project has been creating a historical periodization...
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Maracatus transatlânticos
Grupos típicos de Pernambuco, Brasil, os maracatus expressam através de música, dança e rituais,...
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Edição
A rubrica reúne textos que enfrentam o desafio de refletir sobre a rede transnacional que, sobretudo a...
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Transatlantic Cartographies of Popular Music in the Americas
Popular music is frequently analyzed through national ‘musical genres,’ consecrated through specific...
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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...
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Music
Between the 18th and the 21st centuries, the musical transatlantic space has profoundly changed,...
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The American Century
In 1941, the influential publisher Henry Luce declared the century “American.” The United States’ new...
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Cinema
The section approaches the historical and cultural practices that involve cinema in the transatlantic...
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Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987) nasceu em Porto Novo (Benin). Estudou no Institut des hautes études...
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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 “...
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United States Information Agency
En 1953, la guerre froide pousse le président Eisenhower à créer une agence indépendante du...
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Visual Arts
In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the...
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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...
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Education
Beginning in the 18th century, the field of education has been characterized by intense transatlantic...
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Glauber Rocha
A dimensão transatlântica do projeto estético do cineasta brasileiro Glauber Rocha será discutida a...
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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...
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Memories
Transatlantic memory and heritage evoke a permanent oscillation between universal and specific values,...
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Revista Cine Cubano
A revista Cine Cubano, criada em 1960, promoveu por mais de quatro décadas a circulação de notícias e...
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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...
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The Transatlantic Voyages of Chris Marker
This article studies transatlantic networks established by film director Chris Marker. Whereas it...
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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...
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Amália Rodrigues in Africa
Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was responsible for the popularization of fado in her own country and in...
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Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz
The article investigates the phenomenon of Bossa Nova, its most relevant aesthetic traces and the...
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Nueva Canción
During the 1940s and 1950s, the arts became a symbolic battlefield and ‘folklore’ was understood as a...
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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...
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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...
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Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Ducados, known as Sarah Maldoror, is considered to be the first black woman to make cinema in...
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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...
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South Atlantic
South Atlantic is approached as a space of circulation over three distinct periods. The first begins...
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Robinson Crusoe
In 1719, Daniel Defoe published The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The story and the...
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Transatlantic Authors in European Publishing after 1945
This article on the circulation of books in the transatlantic space starts with a historically datable...
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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...
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Artistic Education and Artist Training
The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...
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Literary Agents
Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...
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Gilberto Gil
“I knew that music would be my language and that I would discover the world through it.” From the ...
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Susan Sontag: uma intelectual pública
Judia, Susan Sontag nasceu em New York, estudou literatura, filosofia e teologia em renomadas...
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Intellectuals
This section examines how the movements of thinkers and ideas around the Atlantic basin produced...
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Makossa
Born in Douala in the 1950s, and strongly influenced by Ghanaian highlife music, Congolese rumba and...