French And Americans
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French And Americans
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Author : Pascal Baudry
language : en
Publisher: Les Frenchies, Inc.
Release Date : 2005
French And Americans written by Pascal Baudry and has been published by Les Frenchies, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with France categories.
National Stereotypes In Perspective
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Author : William L. Chew
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2001
National Stereotypes In Perspective written by William L. Chew and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Since the late 18th century, when they first entered into an alliance during the American Revolution, the French and Americans have had a long and sometimes stormy relationship based on a complex mix of mutual admiration, cultural criticism, and sometimes downright disgust for the "other." The relatively new interdisciplinary field of imagology, or image studies, allows us to place the dynamics of such a relationship into perspective by grounding its analysis firmly in the study of national stereotypes, in the process providing new insights into the mentality of the observer. For if anything, image studies demonstrate again and again that national character is not-as assumed uncritically for centuries-an innate essence of the "other", but rather a self-serving functional construct of the observer.
Fr Res Ennemis
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Author : William Cloonan
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-25
Fr Res Ennemis written by William Cloonan and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Frères Ennemis focuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature from approximately the mid-nineteenth-century to the present. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes’ theory of modern myth, described in his Mythologies. Barthes’ theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture.
The French Way
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Author : Richard F. Kuisel
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-12
The French Way written by Richard F. Kuisel and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with History categories.
How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably hegemonic." Are the French fascinated or threatened by America? They Americanize yet are notorious for expressions of anti-Americanism. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and contradictions of France's relationship to American politics and culture. Richard Kuisel shows how the French have used America as both yardstick and foil to measure their own distinct national identity. They ask: how can we be modern like the Americans without becoming like them? France has charted its own path: it has welcomed America's products but rejected American policies; assailed America's "jungle capitalism" while liberalizing its own economy; attacked "Reaganomics'" while defending French social security; and protected French cinema, television, food, and language even while ingesting American pop culture. Kuisel examines France's role as an independent ally of the United States—in the reunification of Germany and in military involvement in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia—but he also considers the country's failures in influencing the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. Whether investigating France's successful information technology sector or its spurning of American expertise during the AIDS epidemic, Kuisel asks if this insistence on a French way represents a growing distance between Europe and the United States or a reaction to American globalization. Exploring cultural trends, values, public opinion, and political reality, The French Way delves into the complex relationship between two modern nations.
The First Expatriates
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Author : Yvon Bizardel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The First Expatriates written by Yvon Bizardel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
Orders From France
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Author : Roger G. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-09-01
Orders From France written by Roger G. Kennedy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-01 with categories.
America And The Americans From A French Point Of View
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Author : Price Collier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
America And The Americans From A French Point Of View written by Price Collier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with African Americans categories.
The Americans And The French
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Author : Crane Brinton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1968
The Americans And The French written by Crane Brinton and has been published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
"Reading suggestions": p. [281]-296.
The French In America During The War Of Independence Of The United States 1777 1783
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Author : Thomas Balch
language : en
Publisher: Irvington Publishers
Release Date : 1972
The French In America During The War Of Independence Of The United States 1777 1783 written by Thomas Balch and has been published by Irvington Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
Seducing The French
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Author : Richard F. Kuisel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993-04-20
Seducing The French written by Richard F. Kuisel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-20 with History categories.
When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries. The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable. Cold War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon. Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French—and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.
