Popular front Paris and the poetics of culture
By: Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar
Contributors: Ungar, Steven, 1945-
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780674017030
Subjects: Motion pictures -- France -- History -- 20th century; Paris (France) -- History -- 20th century; Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; France -- History -- 1914-1940
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-436) and index
Table of contents: title: The poetics of culture and the harmonies of history; title: A page in history: Resnais' Stavisky...and the 1930s; title: I: Street work; title: February 6, 1934. and the press of direct action; title: Céline and Malraux: the literature of discontent; title: Esprit in the arena of extremist politics; title: Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise: the arc of revolution; title: II: Atmospheres; title: Daily life in the city; title: Popular entertainment and the decay of intimacy; title: The look of Paris in the age of art deco; title: The lower depths: picturing the Quartier Populaire; title: Imagining the colonies; title: Turbulence in the atmosphere; title: Conclusion as forecast