List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: French Cultural Studies for the 21st Century by Masha
Belenky, Kathryn Kleppinger, Anne O’Neil-Henry
I. Press and Literary Culture
Chapter 1: Methods and Challenges in Deciphering Representations of
Authorial Intimacy in Late Nineteenth-Century French
Photoreportages by Elizabeth Emery
Cahpter 2: The Haitian Literary Magazine in Francophone
Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Production by Chelsea
Stieber
II. Race and Identity in Popular Performance
Chapter 3: Reading Race in Nineteenth-Century French Vaudeville by
Lise Schreier
Chapter 4: Diversity, Exploitation, and Immigration Politics in
French “Ethnic” Erotica by Mehammed Mack
III. Repurposed Images
Chapter 5: Rediscovering Third Republic Illustrated Menus by
Michael Garval
Chapter 6: Picturing the Catherinette: Reinventing Tradition for
the Postcard Age by Susan Hiner
IV. Media Storms
Chapter 7: Unpacking the Success and Criticisms of
Intouchables (2011) by Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp
Chapter 8: “La Transgression de l’écriture”: Marguerite Duras and
the Affaire Villemin by Anne Brancky
Chapter 9: Understanding the Tinayre Affair: New Media, New Methods
for the Belle Epoque by Rachel Mesch
About the Contributors
Index
Masha Belenky is associate professor of French at the George
Washington University.
Kathryn Kleppinger is assistant professor of French and Francophone
Studies at The George Washington University.
Anne O’Neil-Henry is assistant professor of French at Georgetown
University.
All of the essays are carefully researched and articulate “the
importance of the broader social and historical settings” (xix).
Most of the essays are beautifully illustrated. This book is
definitely worth reading.
*The French Review*
Here is a well-arranged composite English-language work that
introduces us to the literary movement of French cultural studies
through its methodological practice. The analysis of
non-traditional sources - generally left in the shadows by their
popular origin (contrary to what is called the "high literature" of
the great recognized authors) presents, in fact, a certain
interest, and moreover, sheds new light on the research
possibilities of cultural studies in literature and customs that
have dominated the post-revolutionary period to the present day. .
. . This original work once more opens discussions for the
development of French cultural studies and serves as an example for
anyone interested in this form of literary criticism. [Translated
from original French]
*Nineteenth-Century French Studies*
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