Clara Bouveresse

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Was “American” Photography a European Invention?

This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s...

Juliette Dumont, Didier Aubert

pt fr en

Diplomacia cultural: entre propaganda e soft power

Diretamente ou por intermédio de instituições e atores não governamentais, os Estados tiveram papel...

Manon Fabre

fr en

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

fr en

Americanization through the Arts

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

Charlotte Servel

fr en

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...

Yannick Séité

fr en

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

fr en

Levitt-villes in France

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

Jessica Gienow-Hecht

en

US Cultural Diplomacy

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