Marc Lapprand

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Boris Vian, inventor of America

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

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...

Pierre Fargeton

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Ray Ventura, jazz and French chanson: an ambiguous Americanization

In the 1930s, Ray Ventura and his Collégiens established themselves as a model of French chanson,...

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...

Nicolas Hatzfeld

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American working methods in Jacques Tati’s films and on French television

Jacques Tati’s films lampoon France’s fascination with the United States during the early postwar...

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...

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,...

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...