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POPULAR FRONT PARIS AND THE POETICS OF CULTURE
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Canadian Journal of Film Studies
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April 1, 2008
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POPULAR FRONT PARIS AND THE POETICS OF CULTURE Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2005, 464 pp.
Reviewed by Charles O'Brien
In Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture co-authors Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar offer a study of the cultural life of mid-1930s Paris in extraordinary breadth and substantive detail. Spanning topics from literature to film, stage revues, automobiles, photo journalism, literary awards, weekly magazines, and colonial and decorative-arts expositions, and layered with cross-references and thematic links, this weighty book is of essential value for scholars of interwar France. For film studies, it provides a ...
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