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A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship,
It's So French!
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Vanessa R. Schwartz
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Looks at the influence of French culture on a variety of motion pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Gigi" and "Funny Face."
Double Takes
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Carolyn A. Durham
Categories: Culture in motion pictures
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: UPNE

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Viewing cross-cultural differences through the lens of cinema.
The Death of French Culture
Language: en
Pages: 139
Authors: Donald Morrison
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-09 - Publisher: Polity

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For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. However, of this past glory, all that is left today is navel-gazing, nostalgia and timidity.
The Contested Parterre
Language: en
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Authors: Jeffrey S. Ravel
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In the playhouses of eighteenth-century France, clerks and students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat stood in the pit, while the majority