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La France de Profil
La France de Profil is a tribute to a way of life that still exists in the French countryside, revealing the essence of rural life in post-war France.
Balthus
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Fluctuat Nec Mergitur
Latin title loosely translate to: He who rises with the wave is not swallowed by it.
The Collaborator
On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists. Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right that he was executed when others, who were directly responsible for the murder of thousands, were set free? Kaplan's meticulous reconstructi...
Past Imperfect
Swept up in the vortex of communism, French postwar intellectuals developed a blind spot to Stalinist tyranny. Albert Camus, who had been an authentic moral voice of the Resistance, pretended not to know about the crimes and terrors of the Soviet Union. Jean-Paul Sartre perverted logic to make an apologia for the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Simone de Beauvoir called for social change to be brought about in a single convulsion, or else not at all. Foolish French thinkers, suffering self-imposed moral anesthesia, defended the credibility of the show trials in Stalinized Eastern Europe. In a devastating study, Judt, a professor of European studies at New York University, argues that the belief system of postwar intellectuals, propped up by faith in communism, reflected fatal weaknesses in French culture such as the fragility of the liberal tradition and the penchant for grand theory. He also strips away the postwar myth that the small, fighting French Resistance was assisted by the mass of the nation.
The Collaborator
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French News
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Ouster
"In 1920, a young county attorney takes on the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma. This true story tells of a three year battle that Claude Hendon, a county attorney wages to bring down the powerful Ku Klux Klan in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. In that battle, members of the local Klan whipping teams are prosecuted and sent to jail along with county Klan leaders. At the state level in late 1923, the Klan controlled legislature impeaches and removes Claude's ally, Governor Jack Walton of Oklahoma. At the same time, the state attorney general, a Ku Klux Klan supporter, puts Claude on trial on charges of bribery, drunkenness and failure to conduct a special election as mandated by the legislature. Threatened, shot at, physically beaten, and hauled into court, can Claude save himself and win his battle to rid the county of the Ku Klux Klan?"--Cover.
A Box of Photographs
Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how we produce photographs and what they mean to us. In this book that is equal parts memoir and intellectual and cultural history, French writer Roger Grenier contemplates the ways that photography can change the course of a life, reflecting along the way on the history of photography and its practitioners. Unfolding in brief, charming vignettes, A Box of Photographs evokes Grenier’s childhood in Pau, his war years, and his working life at the Gal...
