Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture

Dudley Andrew

Steven Ungar

    Prologue. The Poetics of Culture and the Harmonics of History

    Introduction. A Page in History: Resnais' Stavisky...and the 1930s

    I. Street Work

    1. February 6, 1934, and the Press of Direct Action

    2. Céline and Malraux: The Literature of Discontent

    3. Esprit in the Arena of Extremist Politics

    4. Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise: The Arc of Revolution

    II. Atmospheres

    5. Daily Life in the City

    6. Popular Entertainment and the Decay of Intimacy

    7. The Look of Paris in the Age of Art Deco

    8. The Lower Depths: Picturing the Quartier Populaire

    9. Imagining the Colonies

    10. Turbulence in the Atmosphere

    Conclusion as Forecast

    Notes

    Credits

    Index

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Photo by Shira Ungar: Dudley Andrew (left) and Steven Ungar

Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film Studies and of Comparative Literature at Yale University.

Steven Ungar is Professor of French and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa and the author of Roland Barthes: the Professor of Desire.