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...

Richard Cándida Smith

es en

Pan Americanism

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

Marc Lapprand

fr en

Boris Vian, Inventor of America

During his short life, Boris Vian introduced American culture to France in his two favorite forms:...

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,...