Review by Gayle K. Brunelle; Annette Finley-Croswhite
Reviews with tag "1914–1945"
Abortion during the Occupation: Claude Chabrol’s [Une affaire de femmes] (Story of Women)
Review by Hanna Diamond
A neglected masterwork recovered: [Travels in the Congo] and the French interwar African expedition film
Review by Paul Henley
[L’aventure du réel] and Jean Rouch’s Passionate Subjectivity
Review by Laure Astourian
To Watch Someone Die: [La Peste]
Review by Meaghan Emery
Alexandre Yersin: Plague Conqueror and White Colonizer
Review by Michael G. Vann
Photographic Perspectives on the Everyday: Julia Pirotte’s Images of Occupation in Marseille
Review by Abigail E. Lewis
Anna Seghers’ and Christian Petzold’s [Transit]
Review by Ruth Schwertfeger
Adrien Bosc’s novel on the voyage of the [Capitaine Paul Lemerle] (1941)
Review by Eric Jennings
Aimé Césaire’s [Notebook of a Return to the Native Land]
Review by Kristen Stromberg Childers
The Homefront During WWI: Xavier Beauvois’s [Les Gardiennes] (2017)
Review by Martha Hannah
Beyond the Gates of Hell: Jacques Doillon’s [Rodin]
Review by Neil McWilliam
Waiting for [Godot]: Jo Baker, [A Country Road, A Tree]
Review by Alan Morris
Loving Picasso (or Not)
Review by Robin Walz
Libya and the Holocaust: Yossi Sucary’s [Benghazi-Bergen-Belsen]
Review by Jessica R. Hammerman
“Blame it on the Casbah”: The White Male Imperialist Fantasies of Duvivier’s [Pépé le Moko]
Review by Michael G. Vann
New Directions in French Holocaust Film: [The Origin of Violence], [Once in a Lifetime], and [Victor “Young” Perez]
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Sisters in the Resistance: [The Nightingale]
Review by Shannon L. Fogg
[The Great Swindle] ou [Au Revoir, Là-haut] de Pierre Lemaitre
Review by Béatrix Pau
In Praise of Folly: Didier Daeninckx, [Caché dans la maison des fous]
Review by Alan Morris
Nina Companeez tackles [À la recherche du temps perdu]
Review by Adam Watt
Christophe Boltanski’s Memories of War and Peace
Review by Philip Nord
[Suite Française]
Review by Simon Kitson
[Legends of the Tour], Jan Cleijne’s Graphic-Novel History of France’s National Bicycle Race
Review by Eric Reed
Kaboom! [Diplomatie] (2014) and the destruction of Paris
Review by Matthew Cobb
A Transnational Struggle for National Salvation: Tierno Monénembo’s [Le terroriste noir] and the history of the French Resistance
Review by Tyler Stovall
Romain Slocombe, [Monsieur le Commandant: A Wartime Confession]
Review by Sandra Ott
A Surfeit of Creative License in George Clooney’s [The Monuments Men]
Review by Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt
Night, Day, and Mediterranean Summers: French Colonial Films for the Classroom
Review by Julia Clancy-Smith
Edward Rutherfurd’s [Paris, the Novel]
Review by Charles Rearick
Teaching [Le Feu/Under Fire] by Henri Barbusse
Review by Susan R. Grayzel
[Putain de guerre!] Teaching Jacques Tardi’s WWI Graphic Novels
Review by Robin Walz
‘French Savages’: War and Colonialism in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s [Black and White in Color]
Review by Richard S. Fogarty
The Dangers of Valor: Roger Vercel’s and Bertrand Tavernier’s [Capitaine Conan]
Review by John Cerullo
[The Grand Illusion:] The Genius of Indirection
Review by Jay Winter
“Anthem for Doomed Youth:” Jean Echenoz’s [1914]
Review by Martha Hanna
Mad Women Artists: [Séraphine, Camille Claudel 1915, Aloïse]
Review by Mark S. Micale
Celebrating the Resistance: [L’armée du crime]
Review by Chris Millington
Jenni’s [French Art of War]
Review by Donald Reid
Collaboration during the Occupation: The “St-Cyr and Kohler” Mysteries
Review by Robin Walz
The Dark Side: French Men Becoming Monsters in Algeria
Review by Michael G. Vann
Vichy France from the Margins: [Les Hommes libres]
Review by Ethan Katz
Vichy France from the Margins: [Half-Blood Blues]
Review by Jeff Jackson
[Coup de Torchon]
Review by Alice Conklin
[La Rafle]
Review by Julian Jackson
[Antonin’s Stories] and [Life and Nothing But]
Review by Paul Jankowski and Martha Hanna
[Indochine] and [The Sea Wall]
Review by Alison J. Murray Levine and Eric T. Jennings
Being Medieval and Civilized
Review by Daniel Lord Smail
[Army of Shadows] and [Lacombe, Lucien]
Review by Simon Kitson and Richard Vinen
[Midnight in Paris]
Review by Jeffrey H. Jackson
[Suite Française,] Irène Némirovsky
Review by Sara Maza