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Revisiting the French Resistance in cinema, literature, bande dessinée, and television (1942-2012)
\"Explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how France's cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the 2French Resistance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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After the Fall
In this work, the first critical monograph on Suite française, Nathan Bracher shows how, first amid the chaos and panic of the May-June 1940 debacle, and then within the unsettling new order of the German occupation, Némirovsky's novel casts a particularly revealing light on the behavior and attitudes of the French as well as on the highly problematic interaction of France's social classes
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Testimony from the Nazi Camps
This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French literature, genre, women's studies and the Holocaust.
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The Shameful Peace
The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained-including Gide and Céline, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin-responded in various ways. This fascinating book is the first to provide a full account of how France's artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence. Some became heroes, others villains; most were simply survivors.
Filled with anecdotes about the artists, composers, writers, filmmakers, and actors who lived through the years of occupation, the book illuminates the disconcerting experience of life and work within a cultural prison. Frederic Spotts uncovers Hitler's plan to pacify the French through an active cultural life, and examines the unexpected vibrancy of opera, ballet, painting, theater, and film in both the Occupied and Vichy Zones. In view of the longer-term goal to supplant French with German culture, Spotts offers moving insight into the predicament of French artists as they fought to preserve their country's cultural and national identity.
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British propaganda to France, 1940-1944
Tim Brooks studies the organization, operation, and nature of the British propaganda effort in France during the Second World War, focusing on \"white\" propaganda (BBC broadcasts, leaflets dropped by the RAF) and \"black\" propaganda (secret broadcasting stations, \"German\" documents distributed clandestinely, and rumors). Brooks briefly covers the British propaganda effort from the outbreak of war to the fall of France then assesses the effectiveness of the campaign.
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French crime fiction and the Second World War
By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France.
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André Gide and the Second World War
Arguably the most influential French writer of the early twentieth century, André Gide is a paradigmatic figure whose World War II writings offer an exemplary reflection of the challenges facing a leading writer in a time of national collapse. Tracing Gide's circuitous \"intellectual itinerary\" from the fall of France through the postwar purge, this book examines the ambiguous role of France's senior man of letters during the Second World War. The writer's intricate maneuverings offer privileged insights into three issues of broad significance: the relationship of literature and politics in France during World War II, the repressions and repositionings that continue to fuel controversy about the period, and the role of public intellectuals in times of national crisis.
With the exception of the early wartime Journal, Gide's publications during France's \"dark years\" have received little critical attention. This book scrutinizes the entire wartime oeuvre in depth, tracing the evolution of Gide's political views and, most importantly, reading the wartime texts against each other. It is the interplay among these texts that reveals the full complexity of Gide's political positionings and the rhetorical brilliance he deployed to redress his tarnished image.
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The drama of fallen France : reading la comédie sans tickets
The Drama of Fallen France examines various dramatic works written and/or produced in Paris during the four years of Nazi occupation and explains what they may have meant to their original audiences. Because of widespread financial support from the new French government at Vichy, the former French capital underwent a renaissance of theatre during this period, and both the public playhouses and the private theatres provided an amazing array of new productions and revivals. Some of the plays considered here are well known: Anouilh’s Antigone, Sartre’s The Flies, Claudel’s The Satin Slipper. Others have remained obscure, such as Cocteau’s The Typewriter, Giraudoux’s The Apollo of Marsac, and Montherlant’s Nobody’s Son; and two—André Obey’s Eight Hundred Meters and Simone Jollivet’s The Princess of Ursins—have remained virtually unread since the early 1940s. In examining French culture under the Vichy regime and the Nazis, Kenneth Krauss links the politics of gender and sexuality with the more traditional political concepts of collaboration and resistance. A final chapter on Truffaut’s 1980 film, The Last Métro, demonstrates how the present manages to rewrite and revision the complex and seemingly contradictory reality of the past.
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Normandy to Victory
During World War II, U.S. Army generals often maintained diaries
of their activities and the day-to-day operations of their command.
These diaries have proven to be invaluable historical resources for
World War II scholars and enthusiasts alike. Until now, one of the
most historically significant of these diaries, the one kept for
General Courtney H. Hodges of the First U.S. Army, has not been
widely available to the public. Maintained by two of Hodges's
aides, Major William C. Sylvan and Captain Francis G. Smith Jr.,
this unique military journal offers a vivid, firsthand account
detailing the actions, decisions, and daily activities of General
Hodges and the First Army throughout the war.
The diary opens on June 2, 1944, as Hodges and the First Army
prepare for the Allied invasion of France. In the weeks and months
that follow, the diary highlights the crucial role that Hodges's
often undervalued command-the first to cross the German border, the
first to cross the Rhine, the first to close to the Elbe-played in
the Allied operations in northwest Europe. The diary recounts the
First Army's involvement in the fight for France, the Siegfried
Line campaign, the Battle of the Bulge, the drive to the Roer
River, and the crossing of the Rhine, following Hodges and his men
through savage European combat until the German surrender in May
1945.
Popularly referred to as the \"Sylvan Diary,\" after its primary
writer, the diary has previously been available only to military
historians and researchers, who were permitted to use it at only
the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, the U.S. Army Center for Military
History, or the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Retired U.S.
Army historian John T. Greenwood has now edited this text in its
entirety and added a biography of General Hodges as well as
extensive notes that clarify the diary's historical details.
Normandy to Victory provides military history enthusiasts
with valuable insights into the thoughts and actions of a leading
American commander whose army played a crucial role in the Allied
successes of World War II.
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