“Screening France” in America takes several forms: American films that take place in France or use French people as their central characters, French films released in the US, and American remakes of French films. Since American remakes of French films usually become full-fledged American movies, and French films are often re-edited before being shown on American screens, all forms tend to display the same characteristics, often determined by the American cinematic taste for romance, a clear separation between good and evil, and a preferably happy ending that will gather all the loose ends. Though such characteristics may satisfy moviegoers’ instinctive longings for romance, happiness and clear-cut morals, this taste was reinforced and legitimized during the Production Code and studio system era (from the 1930s through the 1950s).
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In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2003
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- Research Article
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- 81–94 (14 total)
Kirsty Carpenter
In late 1792, the British people and government unexpectedly found themselves facing a refugee crisis as thousands of French émigrés fled to England—crossing the Channel by any means they could, often in unseaworthy boats. The Morning Chronicle
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- Research Article
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- 51–68 (18 total)
Mark Ingram
Sophie Chevalier, ed., Anthropology at the Crossroads: The View from France (Canon Pyon, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2015). Two stories emerge from this book. The first is the history of a national tradition of scholarship: the factors
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
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- 108–122 (15 total)
Rapping French Cities in the 1990s
Blurring Marseille and Brightening Paris in Contested Processes of Boundary Making
Joseph Downing
depictions of urban boundaries. Nor has the sociological literature done much to illuminate the subtleties of how French rappers create boundaries in their music. This article aims to do just that by comparing how rap artists depict territory in Paris and
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 136–154 (19 total)
Irwin M. Wall
The French elections of 2012 resulted in an unprecedented and overwhelming victory by France's Socialist Party, which gained control of the presidency and an absolute majority in the National Assembly to go with the party's existing domination of most of France's regions and municipalities. But the Socialist Party remains a minority party in the French electoral body politic, its victory the result of a skewered two-ballot electoral system. The Socialist government, moreover, remains hampered in its action by its obligations toward the European Union and its participation in the zone of countries using the Euro as it attempts to deal with France's economic crisis. As a consequence of both of these phenomena the government may also be sitting atop a profound political crisis characterized by the alienation of a good part of the electorate from the political system.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2012
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- Research Article
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- 1–19 (19 total)
Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe
Catholicism, Social Science, and Democratic Planning
W. Brian Newsome
Over the course of his career, urban sociologist Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe evolved from a sociological interpreter of human needs into an advocate of the democratization of city planning. The major factors shaping this trajectory were his contacts with liberal Catholic associations, his education under ethnologist Marcel Mauss, his teaching experience at the École des cadres d'Uriage, and his own studies of working-class communities. Chombart de Lauwe took French urban sociology in novel directions and effected an important and underappreciated liberalization of city planning. Analysis of Chombart de Lauwe also challenges recent trends in the historiography of the Catholic Left.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 61–91 (31 total)
From Insurrectional Socialism to French National Socialism
Gustave Hervé and the Great War
Michael B. Loughlin
In The Banquet Years , a fascinating account of the Parisian avant-garde, Roger Shattuck focuses on several iconoclastic artists, even though they were never considered leading figures. 1 A similar opportunity regarding French political avant
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 82–101 (20 total)
France-Allemagne
Noces de diamant ou chronique d'un divorce annoncé?
Robert Toulemon
The proposal of 9 May 1950 by Robert Schuman to put coal and steel industries under a common High Authority was a signal of reconciliation with the new Germany. General de Gaulle, in spite of his opposition to the federal perspective, decided to implement the Treaty of Rome (1957) establishing a common market between France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The French presidents and the German chancellors maintained a strong relationship despite differences of views about British application, NATO, trade and monetary policies, institutional development and, more recently, the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet empire.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 42–54 (13 total)
Pablo Facundo Escalante
“Our discipline works under a tacit presupposition of teleology .” —Reinhart Koselleck At the end of the nineteenth century, republicanism became the mythomoteur on which France’s identity was shaped throughout the following century. Back then, the
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–24 (24 total)
Jews and Christians in Vichy France
New and Renewed Perspectives
Michael Sutton
The publication of new research relating to the positions taken by Jews and Christians in Vichy France continues apace, as witness the selection here of a large number of works published since 2012. * 1 In considering them, we have limited
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Other
- Pages:
- 105–128 (24 total)