EXISTENTIALISM AND CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

A Sartrean Perspective

“(This volume) will provide a useful tool, in particular for students seeking to learn about Sartre and existentialism but also for students exploring th e application of philosophy to the understanding of cinema.”  •  Douglas Morrey, University of Warwick

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FRANCE IN THE AGE OF ORGANIZATION

Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy

"This book will change the way that historians think about the recent history of France. It challenges not only conventional narratives of the origins and nature of the French 'economic miracle', but the very categories that have been used to make sense of the social, economic and cultural history of the interwar years, Vichy and beyond.  No longer will it be possible for historians to use terms such as 'modernisation', 'technocracy' or even 'expertise' without careful reflection on their problematic meaning and their context. All that in a brilliantly written, accessible book"  •  Kevin Passmore, Cardiff University

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NAZI LABOUR CAMPS IN PARIS

Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944

Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the Lévitan furniture store in Paris and subjected to forced labor. However, the Parisian satellite camps have been subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This book is a much needed study of these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events, expressing this memory remains a complex and painful process.

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COLLECTIVE TERMS

Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France

"This is a wonderful work of ethnography on a topic of vital contemporary concern—the French banlieue . . . It offers a fresh look at what has become a rather paralyzed debate on race, culture, integration and difference in France . . . By studying social life in a New Town, rather than working with one particular immigrant community, the author moves us to a far richer depiction of urban France and is able to tackle these topics in a fresh new way."  •  Andrea Smith, Lafayette College

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THE DEVIL'S CAPTAIN

Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944

Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial. This new perspective on the war years adds significantly to our understanding of France's darkest hour.

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FRANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE, 1944-2007

The Geopolitical Imperative

“Michael Sutton has produced an eminently readable and strongly researched overall history of France’s tireless efforts in favor of ‘la construction européenne’… The book is a veritable tour de force and will long be cited as a primary reference on France’s tortuous relations with Europe.”  •  French Politics, Culture & Society

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STARDOM IN POSTWAR FRANCE

“This strong collection, through its insistence on the import of stardom beyond an array of one-dimensional incarnations of a zeitgeist to consider complex embodiments of specific contemporary tensions and dynamics, succeeds in expanding successfully the consideration of star identities in French studies and provides both fascinating case studies and valuable models for future analysis.”  •  French Studies

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THE NEW FACE OF POLITICAL CINEMA

Commitment in French Film since 1995

“O’Shaughnessy’s book succeeds in bringing to light a new tendency in French political cinema, and as such will reward the attention of those interested in political cinema as well as French cinema more generally. The book also further opens up fertile terrain in the ‘aesthetic of the fragment’.”  •  Senses of Cinema

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JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS

Franco-British Cinematic Relations

“This is a rich and academically relevant collection … that offers an engagement with a full spectrum of disciplinary interests … The running filmography that is established across the volume will be a great resource to film scholars and students, and the range of methodological approaches deployed is genuinely inspiring in terms of its diversity, application and results.”  •  Sue Harris, Queen Mary University of London

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RACE IN FRANCE

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

“Herrick Chapman and Laura Frader have done a wonderful job of bringing together a wide range of pathbreaking essays on the topic of race in France, giving a new perspective on what it means to be French in the modern and contemporary era.”  •  Journal of Modern History

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HOLOCAUST MONUMENTS AND NATIONAL MEMORY

France and Germany since 1989

“One strength of Carrier’s book is the way he charts these debates, showing how they were symptomatic of a wider struggle over national memory. Another great strength of this book is its thorough and informative knowledge of theoretical literature on memory and memorials, a knowledge which Carrier – to his enormous credit – does not simply parade before us but actually applies to the objects of his study…a superb book.” • European History Quarterly

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French Culture, Politics, and Society

Volume 29, Number 2

The Journal explores modern and contemporary France from the perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural analysis. It also examines the relationship of France to the larger world, especially Europe, the United States, and the former French Empire. The editors welcome pieces on recent debates and events, as well as articles that explore the connections between French society and cultural expression of all sorts (such as art, film, literature, and popular culture).

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Sartre Studies International

An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture

Volume 17, Number 1

Sartre Studies International publishes articles of a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and international character reflecting the full range and complexity of Sartre's own work. It focuses on the philosophical, literary and political issues originating in existentialism, and explores the continuing vitality of existentialist and Sartrean ideas in contemporary society and contemporary culture.

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