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France in the Postwar Era
 
 

Suggested reading and resources

The names of authors who are speakers at France in the Postwar Era are indicated in bold type.



Roland Barthes,  Mythologies  (Paris: Seuil, 1970)

Annie Ernaux,  La Place  (1984)

J. Forbes & M. Kelly, (eds.)  French Cultural Studies: An Introduction  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)

Melissa Leventon, with Stephen De Pietri,  New Look to Now French Haute Couture, 1947-1987  (Rizzoli, 1989)

Brent Maddock,  The Films of Jacques Tati,  (Scarecrow Press, 1977)

Marie-France Pochna,  Christian Dior  (Arcade Publishing, 1994)

Brian Rigby,  Popular Culture in France: A Study of Cultural Discourse  (London: Routledge, 1991)

Kristin Ross,  Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: De-colonization and the Reordering of French Culture  (London &Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1995)

May '68 and Its Afterlives. Chicago, 2002.

The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune. University of Minnesota Press. 1988.

“Everyday Life,” ed. with Alice Kaplan. Yale French Studies, no. 73. Fall 1987.

Vanessa Schwarz,  Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in fin-de-siècle Paris,  (University of California Press, 1998)

Co-Editor, with Leo Charney: Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life,  (University of California Press, 1995)

Le Festival de Cannes, in Liberation,  (University of California Press, 2001)

I.M. Wall,  French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unity and Integration, 1945-1962.  (Westport, CT: Greenwood Pres, 1983.)

The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)  [The English version of L’Influence americaine, Paris: Andre Balland, 1989.]

John Zysman,  Political Strategies for Industrial Order: State, Market and Industry in France  (University of California Press, 1977)

Governments, Markets, and Growth: Finance and the Politics of Industrial Change  (Cornell University Press, 1983)

 
     
 
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