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The French Way
Preface -- Note on anti-Americanism -- America à la mode: the 1980s -- Anti-Americanism in retreat: Jack Lang, cultural imperialism, and the anti-anti-Americans -- Reverie and rivalry: Mitterrand and Reagan-Bush -- The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds in the land of the Gauls -- Taming the hyperpower: the 1990s -- The French way: society, economy and culture in the 1990s -- The paradox of the fin de siècle: anti-Americanism and Americanization.
Beauvoir and Her Sisters
Beauvoir and Her Sisters investigates how women's experiences, as represented in print culture, led to a political identity of an "imagined sisterhood" through which political activism developed and thrived in postwar France. Through the lens of women's political and popular writings, Sandra Reineke presents a unique interpretation of feminist and intellectual discourse on citizenship, identity, and reproductive rights. Drawing on feminist writings by Simone de Beauvoir, feminist reviews from the women's liberation movement, and cultural reproductions from French women's fashion and beauty magazines, Reineke illustrates how print media created new spaces for political and social ideas. This ...
Awareness
This book should be read as a viaticum, a guide, planting along the road of life what Henri Michaux called “corner posts.” The author recalls “viaticum books” (from the Bible to Gertrude Stein, Jean Giono), and his vows—“gathering of provisions”—call for the publication of such books. (. . . ) Thierry Roger
French Twentieth Bibliography
This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
Darling, I'm Going to Charlie
"Darling, Im going to Charlie." These were the last words that prolific satirical cartoonist Georges Wolinski said to his wife, Maryse, as he left for work. Two hours later, terrorists barged into the Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine, fatally shooting him and eleven others. Darling, Im Going to Charlie is not only one womans beautiful tribute to her late husband, but also a stunning, courageous testimony and inspiring call for change.
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The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism
This book presents a fresh approach to the question of the historical continuities and discontinuities of Jew-hatred, juxtaposing chapters dealing with the same phenomenon – one in the pre-modern, one in the modern period. How do the circumstances of interreligious violence differ in pre-Reformation Europe, the modern Muslim world, and the modern Western world? In addition to the diachronic comparison, most chapters deal with the significance of religion for the formation of anti-Jewish stereotypes. The direct dialogue of small-scale studies bridging the chronological gap brings out important nuances: anti-Zionist texts appropriating medieval ritual murder accusations; modern-day pogroms triggered by contemporary events but fuelled by medieval prejudices; and contemporary stickers drawing upon long-inherited knowledge about what a "Jew" looks like. These interconnections, however, differ from the often-assumed straightforward continuities between medieval and modern anti-Jewish hatred. The book brings together many of the most distinguished scholars of this field, creating a unique dialogue between historical periods and academic disciplines.
Fighters in the Shadows
The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside “the French Resistance” of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny. As Fighters in the Shadows makes clear, French resistance was part of a Europe-wide struggle against fasci...
Suite for Barbara Loden
The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. “I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. “Usually, there is a distance between representation and text, subject and action. Here that distance is completely eradicated.” It is perhaps this “miracle”—the seeming collapse of fiction and fact—that has made Wanda (1970) a cult classic, and a fascination of artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Léger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker. Suite for Barbara Loden is the magnificent result.
Dis-moi ce que tu manges
Bien au-delà de nos repas quotidiens, notre assiette raconte les idéologies qui nous traversent. Nos manières de manger disent nos manières d’être ensemble ou de ne plus l’être. Depuis la Libération, nous avons vécu le mirage de l’électroménager et le sacre de l’agroalimentaire, l’invention des terroirs et la planète food, la gloire des grands chefs et l’avènement du burger, la quête sans fin du produit bio, éthique et local... Loin d’être anecdotiques, ces changements sont l’écho des aspirations – mais aussi des tensions – de la société française. Un récit passionnant, à la croisée de la mémoire et de l’histoire, qui prouve que manger est tout sauf anodin dans une France en recomposition permanente. Jean-Louis André est normalien, il a collaboré au Monde et travaille comme reporter pour le magazine Saveurs. Réalisateur de documentaires diffusés sur Arte et France Télévisions, il décrypte nos modes de vie à travers l’architecture et l’alimentation. Outre des récits de voyages culinaires, il a publié chez Odile Jacob Au cœur des villes et, avec Ricardo Bofill, Espaces d’une vie.
