Volume 11, Issue 3, March 2021
Reviews:
Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy, by David A. Bell
Reviews:
A Tale of Two Cities: A Transnational Approach, by Colin Jones
Reviews:
The Many Faces and Truths of Pauline Dubuisson, by Gayle K. Brunelle; Annette Finley-Croswhite
Reviews:
Abortion during the Occupation: Claude Chabrol’s Une affaire de femmes (Story of Women), by Hanna Diamond
Volume 11, Issue 2, January 2021
Reviews:
A neglected masterwork recovered: Travels in the Congo and the French interwar African expedition film, by Paul Henley
Reviews:
L’aventure du réel and Jean Rouch’s Passionate Subjectivity, by Laure Astourian
Reviews:
Radiation Affects: Three Novels About French Nuclear Imperialism in Algeria, by Roxane Panchasi
Volume 11, Issue 1, October 2020
Reviews:
To Watch Someone Die: La Peste, by Meaghan Emery
Reviews:
Jean Giono’s Le hussard sur le toit: Egotism and Altruism in the Time of Cholera, by Jeffrey B Hobbs
Reviews:
Alexandre Yersin: Plague Conqueror and White Colonizer, by Michael G. Vann
Volume 10, Issue 4, September 2020
Reviews:
De Gaulle, the films, by Julian Jackson
Reviews:
Psychogeography of a camp: Rivesaltes, by Benjamin Thomas White
Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2020
Reviews:
Love and Art: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019), by Amy Freund
Reviews:
Hybrid identities: Jeune fille modèle by Grace Ly, by Dervila Cooke
Reviews:
The Soul of France on the Boulevard du Crime: Marcel Carné’s Les enfants du paradis, by Laura Mason
Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2020
Reviews:
Agnès Varda and L’Une chante, l’autre pas, by Susan Whitney
Reviews:
Translating Proust, by Michael Kicey
Reviews:
Photographic Perspectives on the Everyday: Julia Pirotte’s Images of Occupation in Marseille, by Abigail E. Lewis
Volume 10, Issue 1, December 2019
Reviews:
Anna Seghers’ and Christian Petzold’s Transit, by Ruth Schwertfeger
Reviews:
Adrien Bosc’s novel on the voyage of the Capitaine Paul Lemerle (1941), by Eric Jennings
Reviews:
Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, by Kristen Stromberg Childers
Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2019
Reviews:
Stolen Childhood, Marc Dugain and Chantal Thomas’s The Royal Exchange, by Lisa Jane Graham
Reviews:
Is the Party Over? Bertrand Tavernier’s Que la fête commence/Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975), by Jonathan Spangler
Reviews:
Mademoiselle de Joncquières or Diderot Updated and Corrected, by Elena Russo
Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2019
Volume 9, Issue 3, April 2019
Reviews:
Multi-directional History in The Battle of Algiers, by Ethan B. Katz
Reviews:
Re-viewing The Battle of Algiers with Zohra Drif, by Donald Reid
Reviews:
Confessions of a Rogue Historian: Why I Wrote a Graphic History of Colonial Hanoi, by Michael G. Vann
Volume 9, Issue 2, February 2019
Reviews:
Film and Fiction? Marguerite Duras, La Douleur and The War, by Shannon L. Fogg
Reviews:
One Man in his Time Plays Many Parts: Ariane Mnouchkine’s Molière, by Alan Morris
Reviews:
Classics in the 21st-Century Classroom: Gustave Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale, by Dominica Chang
Volume 9, Issue 1, October 2018
Reviews:
The Homefront During WWI: Xavier Beauvois’s Les Gardiennes (2017), by Martha Hannah
Reviews:
C’est drôle, l’histoire: L’ histoire dessinée de la France, vols. 1 and 2, by Charlotte C. Wells
Reviews:
An Infinite Present: Annie Ernaux’s The Years and Modern French History, by Benjamin Thomas White
Volume 8, Issue 5, July 2018
The Buzz:
Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx, by Jonathan Beecher
Maybe Missed:
A Small Movement With a Big Agenda: Robin Campillo’s BPM, by V. Hunter Capps
Classics in the Classroom:
A Napoleon for the Digital Age, by Howard G. Brown
Volume 8, Issue 4, March 2018
The Buzz:
Beyond the Gates of Hell: Jacques Doillon’s Rodin, by Neil McWilliam
The Buzz:
Waiting for Godot: Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree, by Alan Morris
Maybe Missed:
Arab Jazz by Karim Miské, by Kimberly A. Arkin
Volume 8, Issue 3, December 2017
The Buzz:
Ça ira (1) fin de Louis: Interview with Guillaume Mazeau, by Liana Vardi, Guillaume Mazeau
Maybe Missed:
Loving Picasso (or Not), by Robin Walz
Classics in the Classroom:
Celebrating Popular Revolution: Jean Renoir’s La Marseillaise (1938), by Laura Mason
Volume 8, Issue 2, November 2017
The Buzz:
A Buddy-Detective Romp through Semiology: The Seventh Function of Language, by Michael Mulvey
Maybe Missed:
The Making of a Modern Man: Jean-Christophe Rufin’s Jacques Coeur, by Daniel Hobbins
Classics in the Classroom:
Adapting Emile Zola’s L’Assommoir, René Clément’s Gervaise (1956), by Rosemary A. Peters-Hill
Volume 8, Issue 1, October 2017
The Buzz:
Alberto Serra’s La mort de Louis XIV, by W. Gregory Monahan
Maybe Missed:
Libya and the Holocaust: Yossi Sucary’s Benghazi-Bergen-Belsen, by Jessica R. Hammerman
Classics in the Classroom:
“Blame it on the Casbah”: The White Male Imperialist Fantasies of Duvivier’s Pépé le Moko, by Michael G. Vann
Volume 7, Issue 6, July 2017
Maybe Missed:
HHhH by Laurent Binet, by Liana Vardi
Classics in the Classroom:
L’Adversaire by Emmanuel Carrère, by Liana Vardi
Volume 7, Issue 5, April 2017
The Buzz:
The tormented artist and his friend: Danièle Thompson’s Cézanne et moi, by Marco Deyasi
Maybe Missed:
Reversed Gazes and Blended Genres: Divines (2016), by Thibault Schilt
Classics in the Classroom:
Banlieue Cinema: La Haine (1995), by Michael Gott
Volume 7, Issue 4, March 2017
The Buzz:
Versailles On a Dark and Stormy Night, by Charlotte C. Wells
Maybe Missed:
“Avec l’amour au poing”*: Elie Wajeman’s Les Anarchistes, by Roxanne Panchasi
Classics in the Classroom:
The Laws of Eighteenth-Century Sex: Thérèse philosophe, by Jennifer J. Davis
Volume 7, Issue 3, February 2017
The Buzz:
Chocolat: A Black Entertainer in the Belle Époque, by Charles Rearick
Maybe Missed:
Kaveena, A Novel of Françafrique, by Kelly Duke Bryant
Classics in the Classroom:
Forgetting is Easy, Remembering is Murder: Didier Daeninckx, Meurtres pour mémoire (1983), by Alan Morris
Volume 7, Issue 2, January 2017
The Buzz:
Betsy and the Emperor: A Well-Worn Tale Retold, by Michael Sibalis
Maybe Missed:
Sisters in the Resistance: The Nightingale, by Shannon L. Fogg
Classics in the Classroom:
New Directions in French Holocaust Film: The Origin of Violence, Once in a Lifetime, and Victor “Young” Perez, by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Volume 7, Issue 1, October 2016
The Buzz:
The Great Swindle ou Au Revoir, Là-haut de Pierre Lemaitre, by Béatrix Pau
Maybe Missed:
Universal measures: 1001 Grams, by Ken Alder
Classics in the Classroom:
On André Gide’s The Immoralist (1902), by Michael Lucey
Volume 6, Issue 6, April 2016
The Buzz:
Men at War: Laurent Mauvignier’s The Wound, by Patricia M.E. Lorcin
The Buzz:
In Praise of Folly: Didier Daeninckx, Caché dans la maison des fous, by Alan Morris
Maybe Missed:
Jewish-Muslim Romance with a French Twist: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann’s He’s My Girl, by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Classics in the Classroom:
“Keep Those Swords Away from the Computer, Boys!” The Three Musketeers in the Classroom, by Charlotte C. Wells
Volume 6, Issue 5, March 2016
The Buzz:
Albert Camus’s “L’hôte” becomes Loin des hommes (Far From Men), by Joshua Cole
Maybe Missed:
Nina Companeez tackles À la recherche du temps perdu, by Adam Watt
Classics in the Classroom:
Robert Merle’s Wars of Religion: The Brethren and City of Wisdom and Blood, by Brian Sandberg
Volume 6, Issue 4, February 2016
The Buzz:
Christophe Boltanski’s Memories of War and Peace, by Philip Nord
Maybe Missed:
Literature as post-colonial reality? Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, by Natalya Vince
Classics in the Classroom:
Sophie Barthes’s Madame Bovary, by James Smith Allen
Volume 6, Issue 3, January 2016
The Buzz:
Benoît Jacquot’s Journal d’une femme de chambre, by Eliza Earle Ferguson
Maybe Missed:
Victor Hugo’s Funeral as Historical Fiction, by Charles Rearick
Classics in the Classroom:
Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize), by Marisa Linton
Volume 6, Issue 2, November 2015
The Buzz:
Suite Française, by Simon Kitson
Classics in the Classroom:
Into the Heart of Darkness: Patrick Modiano, The Occupation Trilogy (2015), by Alan Morris
Volume 6, Issue 1, October 2015
The Buzz:
The Politics of Violence: Un Français, by Liana Vardi
Maybe Missed:
A Little Chaos in Louis XIV’s Court, by Kathleen Wellman
Classics in the Classroom:
Revisiting Kechiche’s L’Esquive (Games of Love and Chance), by Elena Russo
Volume 5, Issue 6, April 2015
The Buzz:
Waterloo (1970): A Critical Review, by Charles Esdaile
Maybe Missed:
“When Vice Meets Crime”: Jean-Claude Brisville’s Le Souper, by Philip Dwyer
Classics in the Classroom:
Aragon, La Semaine Sainte, by Alan Forrest
Volume 5, Issue 5, March 2015
The Buzz:
Too Much and Not Enough: Yves Saint Laurent and Saint Laurent, by Mary Lynn Stewart
Maybe Missed:
Legends of the Tour, Jan Cleijne’s Graphic-Novel History of France’s National Bicycle Race, by Eric Reed
Classics in the Classroom:
The Tiepolo of the Terror: Pierre Michon’s The Eleven, by Liana Vardi
Volume 5, Issue 4, February 2015
Maybe Missed:
Molière on the Ile de Ré or Alceste à bicyclette, by Emma Gilby
Classics in the Classroom:
If This is a Woman: Evelyne Trouillot’s The Infamous Rosalie and the Lost Stories of New-World Slavery, by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2014
The Buzz:
Kaboom! Diplomatie (2014) and the destruction of Paris, by Matthew Cobb
The Buzz:
A Transnational Struggle for National Salvation: Tierno Monénembo’s Le terroriste noir and the history of the French Resistance, by Tyler Stovall
Maybe Missed:
Romain Slocombe, Monsieur le Commandant: A Wartime Confession, by Sandra Ott
Classics in the Classroom:
Chabert vs Chabert, by Howard G. Brown
Classics in the Classroom:
Napoleon’s Fiancée: The Fabulous Destiny of Désirée Clary, by Michael Sibalis
Volume 5, Issue 2, November 2014
The Buzz:
“A World of Noise and Fury:” Martin Provost’s Violette (2013), by Sandrine Sanos
Maybe Missed:
Olivier Assayas’ Après mai, by Daniel A. Gordon
Classics in the Classroom:
A Cinematic Revolution? Sources, Imagery and Interpretation in La Révolution française (1989), by Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley
Volume 5, Issue 1, October 2014
The Buzz:
A Surfeit of Creative License in George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, by Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt
Maybe Missed:
Stranger than Fiction: Steven Levingston on Murder, Mesmerism, and Forensics in Fin-de-siècle Paris, by Barbara C. Pope
Classics in the Classroom:
Night, Day, and Mediterranean Summers: French Colonial Films for the Classroom, by Julia Clancy-Smith
Volume 4, Issue 6, April 2014
The Buzz:
Hurons and Jesuits Revisited: Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda, by Allan Greer
Maybe Missed:
Myth, History and Teen-age Romance: A Sixteenth-Century Historian Watches Reign, by Charlotte C. Wells
Classics in the Classroom:
The Magic of the Cévennes: Les Camisards (1972) and Michael Kohlhaas (2013), by W. Gregory Monahan
Volume 4, Issue 5, March 2014
The Buzz:
A la recherche du père perdu: Guillaume Nicloux’s La Religieuse (2013), by Lisa Jane Graham
Maybe Missed:
Edward Rutherfurd’s Paris, the Novel, by Charles Rearick
Classics in the Classroom:
Imagining the Last Capetians: Maurice Druon, The Accursed Kings, by Sarah Hanley
Volume 4, Issue 4, February 2014
The Buzz:
Putain de guerre! Teaching Jacques Tardi’s WWI Graphic Novels, by Robin Walz
The Buzz:
“Anthem for Doomed Youth:” Jean Echenoz’s 1914, by Martha Hanna
Maybe Missed:
‘French Savages’: War and Colonialism in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black and White in Color, by Richard S. Fogarty
Maybe Missed:
The Dangers of Valor: Roger Vercel’s and Bertrand Tavernier’s Capitaine Conan, by John Cerullo
Classics in the Classroom:
Teaching Le Feu/Under Fire by Henri Barbusse, by Susan R. Grayzel
Classics in the Classroom:
The Grand Illusion: The Genius of Indirection, by Jay Winter
Volume 4, Issue 3, December 2013
The Buzz:
Revisiting the Dreyfus Affair: Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy, by Julie Kalman
Maybe Missed:
Mad Women Artists: Séraphine, Camille Claudel 1915, Aloïse, by Mark S. Micale
Classics in the Classroom:
The Birth of the Department Store: Émile Zola’s Au bonheur des dames and BBC’s The Paradise miniseries, by Michael Miller
Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2013
The Buzz:
Alice Winocour’s Augustine, by Judith Surkis
Maybe Missed:
Sebastian Faulks, Human Traces, by Richard C. Keller
Classics in the Classroom:
Revisiting an old classic: Black Robe Three Ways, by Cecilia Danysk, Amanda Eurich, Laurie Hochstetler
Volume 4, Issue 1, October 2013
The Buzz:
Clinging to the Myth: Perez-Réverte on Napoleon’s siege of Cádiz, by Charles Esdaile
Maybe Missed:
Happy as a Slave: The Toussaint Louverture miniseries, by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Classics in the Classroom:
The Fifth Republic and the Peasants: Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, and Tous au Larzac, by Don Reid
Volume 3, Issue 6, April 2013
The Buzz:
Méliès and the Dreyfus Affair: Paper Conspiracies, by Venita Datta
Maybe Missed:
Celebrating the Resistance: L’armée du crime, by Chris Millington
Classics in the Classroom:
Revisiting Cyrano de Bergerac (1990): Ideas for Teaching Old Regime Theater in the History Classroom, by Jeffrey S. Ravel
Volume 3, Issue 5, March 2013
The Buzz:
Death in the Belle Époque: Barbara Corrado Pope’s Trilogy of Mysteries, by Charles Sowerwine
Maybe Missed:
Andrew Miller’s Pure and Les Innocents Cemetery, by Clare Crowston
Classics in the Classroom:
Cannibal Histories: Some Comments on Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, by Michael Wintroub
Volume 3, Issue 4, February 2013
The Buzz:
Who were Les Misérables?, by Michael Sibalis
Maybe Missed:
Jenni’s French Art of War, by Donald Reid
Classics in the Classroom:
Medievalism and Modernity in Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Alex J. Novikoff
Volume 3, Issue 3, December 2012
The Buzz:
Smugglers’ Songs, by Michael Kwass
Classics in the Classroom:
À bas la guillotine! Vive la bourgeoisie? Lacenaire and The Widow of Saint Pierre, by Thomas Cragin
Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2012
The Buzz:
Les adieux à la reine/Farewell, My Queen, by Laura Mason
Maybe Missed:
Collaboration during the Occupation: The “St-Cyr and Kohler” Mysteries, by Robin Walz
Classics in the Classroom:
Catholic Reform in the Grand Siècle: Monsieur Vincent (1947), by Michael Wolfe
Classics in the Classroom:
Possession in the Grand Siècle: The Devils, by Darryl Dee
Volume 3, Issue 1, October 2012
The Buzz:
Vichy France from the Margins: Les Hommes libres, by Ethan Katz
The Buzz:
Vichy France from the Margins: Half-Blood Blues, by Jeff Jackson
Maybe Missed:
The Dark Side: French Men Becoming Monsters in Algeria, by Michael G. Vann
Classics in the Classroom:
The Lymond Chronicles, by Charlotte Wells
Volume 2, Issue 6, May 2012
The Buzz:
The French Revolution on TV in the New Millennium, by Aurore Chery
Maybe Missed:
Sex, Drugs, and Literature, by David Caron
Classics in the Classroom:
A Place of Greater Safety, by Colin Jones
Classics in the Classroom:
France’s Terror: Les dieux ont soif , by D.M.G Sutherland
Volume 2, Issue 5, April 2012
The Buzz:
Skating over the Abyss: A Review of Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetery, by Steven Englund
The Buzz:
The Need to Remember : L’ordre et la morale (Rebellion), by Denise Fisher
Classics in the Classroom:
Coup de Torchon, by Alice Conklin
Classics in the Classroom:
Le Crabe-Tambour: In the Wake of Empire, by Robert Aldrich
Volume 2, Issue 4, March 2012
The Buzz:
Interview with Susanne Alleyn, by Liana Vardi
Maybe Missed:
Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky, by Sara Maza
Classics in the Classroom:
Louis, enfant roi, by Brian Sandberg
Classics in the Classroom:
The Grandeur of Louis XIV on Film, by Bill Beik
Volume 2, Issue 3, December 2011
The Buzz:
Dumas for Dummies, by Liana Vardi
Maybe Missed:
The Cinematic Maid: Teaching Joan of Arc through Film, by Daniel Hobbins
Classics in the Classroom:
La nuit de Varennes and Danton, by Jack Censer and Mary Ashburn Miller
Volume 2, Issue 2, November 2011
The Buzz:
Midnight in Paris, by Jeffrey H. Jackson
Maybe Missed:
To the Hermitage, by Kent Wright
Classics in the Classroom:
Breathless and Cléo de 5 à 7, by Patrick Young and Rebecca Pulju
Volume 2, Issue 1, October 2011
The Buzz:
Black Venus/Vénus Noire, by Matthew Ramsey
Maybe Missed:
An Unreconstructed Haussmann, by David P. Jordan
Classics in the Classroom:
Army of Shadows and Lacombe, Lucien, by Simon Kitson and Richard Vinen
Volume 1, Issue 6, May 2011
The Buzz:
La Princesse de Montpensier, by Paul Cohen
Maybe Missed:
Duelling Films, by Howard G. Brown
Classics in the Classroom:
The King is Dancing and The King’s Way, by Michael P. Breen and Junko Thérèse Takeda
Volume 1, Issue 5, April 2011
The Buzz:
Neither Saint nor Whore, by Liana Vardi
Maybe Missed:
Parot’s Eighteenth-Century Mysteries, by David Garrioch
Classics in the Classroom:
Beaumarchais l’insolent and Ridicule, by Thomas E. Kaiser and Lisa Jane Graham
Volume 1, Issue 4, March 2011
The Buzz:
Hors-la-loi/Outside the Law, by Todd Shepard
Maybe Missed:
Being Medieval and Civilized, by Daniel Lord Smail
Classics in the Classroom:
Indochine and The Sea Wall, by Alison J. Murray Levine and Eric T. Jennings
Volume 1, Issue 3, February 2011
The Buzz:
Unwritten Stories, by Laurent Dubois
Maybe Missed:
Madison Smartt Bell’s Haitian Revolution Trilogy, by Jeremy D. Popkin
Classics in the Classroom:
Les caprices d’un fleuve and Burn!, by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Volume 1, Issue 2, January 2011
The Buzz:
Parrot and Olivier in America, by K. Steven Vincent
Maybe Missed:
Patrick Rambaud’s Napoleonic Trilogy, by Michael Sibalis
Classics in the Classroom:
May Fools, The Dreamers & Regular Lovers, by Donald M. Reid
Volume 1, Issue 1, December 2010
The Buzz:
La Rafle, by Julian Jackson
Maybe Missed:
Crime, Terror & Sleuthing in Paris, 1889, by Charles Rearick
Classics in the Classroom:
Antonin’s Stories and Life and Nothing But, by Paul Jankowski and Martha Hanna