Contenu du sommaire : La présence américaine en France XIXe-XXe siècles.
Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
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Numéro | no 59, février 1994 |
Titre du numéro | La présence américaine en France XIXe-XXe siècles. |
Texte intégral en ligne | Accessible sur l'internet |
- Introduction - La présence américaine en France (XIXe-XXe siècles),à la recherche d'une problématique - Nicole Fouché p. 4 pages
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke: A Salon Artist par excellence - Britta Dwyer p. 13 pages Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856-1942), parfois connue en France pour avoir été l'Américaine, compagne, biographe et légataire de la femme peintre française Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), fut elle-même une artiste importante, aujourd'hui oubliée comme telle. Or grâce à sa production et à sa participation suivie et active aux « Salons » de la Société des artistes français, on peut étudier l'évolution de sa peinture, de l'académisme — légué par ses maîtres français — à une inspiration nettement plus impressionniste. Pour conclure, ce papier suggère que le Paris artistique du début du XXe siècle, n'était pas exclusivement un centre monolithique d'avant-garde mais un lieu où l'expérimental et le traditionnel coexistaient.
- Hollywood et la France, 1896-1930 - Jacques Portes p. 10 pages French-American rivalry about movies is frequent nowadays, but it begun with the cinema itself. During a short period, around 1908, cinema was really international and a French producer as Pathé was successful in the United States. Rapidly, American companies became stronger, due to a large internal market. First World War gave way to an American hegemony over Europe ; France tried to resist, economically and ideologically but could only limit American invasion. Before the triumph of the talking film, Hollywood'strength was solidly built in France ; it never went backwards.
- 1900 : les Américains à l'exposition universelle de Paris - Hélène Trocme p. 10 pages American participation in World Fairs in the second half of the XIXth century reflects the growing interest of this nation for foreign trade and peaceful relations with foreign countries. In 1900, their performance at the Paris International Exhibition was better and more impressive than ever before. Their Pavillion on the Quai d'Orsay was a « home » for Americans visiting Paris and the « Expo ». They had exhibits and received awards in all groups but one. Yet, the French did not really perceive the gigantic progress and rising economic power of the United States.
- 1917-1923 : Les Américaines en Soissonnais, leur influence sur la France - Evelyne Diebolt, Nicole Fouché p. 19 pages This article does not attempt to cover the activities of all the American women in France during the war of 1914-1918, it rather has limited itself to the modest aim of studying a specific group of American volunteer women : those who intiated, developed and ran the American Committee for Devasted France, the CARD. The war brought them in 1917 to the Soissons area where they organized with great efficiency the most urgent relief efforts. After the Armistice, they participated very actively — as had been their project from the beginning — in the reconstruction of the region. They thus implanted in France American methods and models which were to have long-lasting effect on French society.
- Le Raspail vert : les avant-gardes à l'American Center, 1932-1987 - Nelcya Delanoë p. 10 pages The American Center Was founded in 1932. It was (and still is) a private, non profit and independent institution. It was also non sectarian, despite its early and tight connection with the American Cathedral. Reverend Beekman, then Dean of the Cathedral, was its founding father. His goal was to make the Center into a meeting spot for Anglo-American students and artists, a place where they would find help and support for their life and work in Paris. Circumstances, history and individual destinies soon turned it into a center of Franco-American avant-guarde centers — modern music, jazz, painting, cinema, video, sculpture, dance, languages, you name it... if at all possible ! Encounters and collaborations of an unusual sort made the Center into a hot-bed of pioneers in experimentation, transmission and disruption, but also in diffusion. After 50 years of improbable exchanges and seminal creations, which modified French and American arts at large, the American Center moved from Montparnasse to la Halle aux vins, in Bercy, a move that is in keeping with a larger eastward movement in the capital. The Center will re-open in the Spring of 1994, in a brand new building, designed by famous Frank Gehry.
- The American Connection of Certain Religious Bodies in the Paris Area - Hilary Kaiser p. 10 pages Cet article met en évidence les liens entre les États-Unis et une quinzaine de groupes religieux de la région parisienne. Secte ou « mainstream », francophone ou anglophone, récent ou bien établi, faisant du prosélytisme ou pas, tous ont dû survivre dans une culture étrangère. Le problème de leur développement ou de leur maintien se pose cependant.
Hors thème
- L'identité ethnique des Franco-Américains du Maine - Guillaume Marche p. 11 pages Unlike other ethnie minorities, or sexual minorities, and in spite of their numbers, Franco-Americans do not make themselves visible. Their history is one of gradual acculturation. But they are adamant that the French culture is still alive, although it was dramatically affected by social change in the 1950's. Most Franco-Americans think of their ethnic group as a success of the Melting Pot. But this rather tends to show that they are not ready to face their status as a minority.
- L'identité ethnique des Franco-Américains du Maine - Guillaume Marche p. 11 pages
Comptes rendus de lecture
- Stephen Fredman. — The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition - Alain Suberchicot p. 1 page
- Richard Kopley, éd. — Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations - Roger Forclaz p. 2 pages
- Daniel Royot, Jean-Loup Bourget, Jean-Pierre Martin. — Histoire de la culture américaine - Francis Bordat p. 1 page
- Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin. Les Etats-Unis : espace, environnement, société, ville - Elisabeth Cremieu p. 1 page
- Jean-Pierre Martin. — La Vertu par la loi, la Prohibition aux Etats-Unis : 1920-1933 - Jacques Portes p. 1 page
- Stuart A. Scheingold. — The Politics of Street Crime. Criminal Process and Cultural Obsession - Sophie Body-Gendrot p. 1 page
- Margaret Truman, ed. — Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman - Bernard Lemelin p. 1 page
- Michael Parrish. — Anxious Decades, America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 - Malie Montagutelli p. 1 page
- Theda Skocpol. — Protecting Soldiers and Mothers. The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States - Sophie Body-Gendrot p. 1 page
- Christopher L. Tomlins. — Law, Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic - Catherine Collomp p. 1 page
- Nelson Lichtenstein & Howell John Harris, eds. — Industrial Democracy in America, The Ambiguous Promise - Catherine Collomp p. 1 page
- Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton. — American Apartheid. Segregation and the Making of the Underclass - Sophie Body-Gendrot p. 2 pages
- Raphaël J. Sonensheim. — Politics in Black and White. Race and Power in Los Angeles - Sophie Body-Gendrot p. 1 page
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin. — Deborah, Guida and Me; Being Female and Jewish in America - Pierre Guerlain p. 2 pages