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109 articles
Marc Lapprand
fr en

Boris Vian, inventor of America

During his short life, Boris Vian introduced American culture to France in his two favorite forms:...

Laurent Martin
fr en

Francophonie: A Historical Word, A Contemporary Idea

The word Francophonie was created at the end of the 19th century in the context of French...

Anaïs Fléchet, Martin Guerpin, Philip Nord, Philippe Gumplowicz
fr en

Americanization through the Arts

This collection focuses on analyses of artworks and brings together articles that examine the...

Steve Hagimont
fr en

Spas

In the eighteenth century, natural mineral springs spurred the emergence of tourism and played a...

Charlotte Servel
fr

Soupault et les USA : cinéma et poésie surréaliste dans les Années folles

Au début des années 1920, le surréaliste Philippe Soupault voit dans le cinéma américain une forme...

Sophie Coudray
fr en

Theater of the Oppressed: intercontinental trajectories

From its 1950s roots in Brazil to its proliferation around the world, the history of Theatre of the...

Marcia Tosta Dias, Cauê Martins
pt

Fonografia digital e circulação musical transatlântica

O artigo apresenta os principais processos envolvidos na produção e circulação da música gravada...

Jan Baetens
fr en

The photo novel: a Latin genre

From 1947 to 1968, the long-scorned photo novel was one of Europe and Latin America’s most popular...

Mariana Villaça
pt en

Instituto Cubano del Arte e Indústria Cinematográficos

ICAIC was the first cultural body created in Cuba after the Revolution in accordance with Law 169,...

Marcelo Prioste
pt

O imaginário revolucionário no cinema de Santiago Álvarez Román

Santiago Álvarez Román (1919-1998) foi um cineasta cubano, diretor dos Noticieros ICAIC, cinejornal...

Jonathan Dentler
en

Wire photography and transatlantic visual culture

Beginning in the 1920s, wire photography services used a technology similar to a fax machine to send...

Jürg Schneider
en

Circulating West-African Photographs in the Atlantic Visualscape

In the second half of the 19th century, photographs circulated widely in a triangular region...

Loïc Artiaga
fr en

The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammed Ali versus George Foreman (October 30, 1974)

The Muhammed Ali-George Foreman match for the world heavyweight title in Kinshasa was a “Black...

Stéphanie Gonçalves
fr en

The Paris Opera Ballet in the Americas: Dancing Diplomacy (1948-1950)

The Atlantic area was a privileged space for the Paris Opera Ballet after the Second World War. North...

Isabella Seniuta
fr en

When booksellers created the early photography market

Photography catalogues attest to a growing transatlantic trade between 1939 and 1961, when booksellers...

Loïc Artiaga
fr en

Boxing

Boxing is a major modern sport. Codified in England at the end of the eighteenth century, it became a...

Jean-Sébastien Noël
fr en

Luigi Nono

During his travels in Latin America and the United States, the composer and Communist activist Luigi...

Charlotte Gould
fr

L’exposition « Sensation » (Londres 1997- New York 2000) : scandales publics, financements...

Le voyage de Londres vers New York de l’exposition « Sensation », à la fin des années 1990, semblait...

Erin Nolan, Aimée Bessire
en

Reimagining Todd Webb's Photographs of 1958 Colonial Africa

This paper charts the path of Todd Webb’s 1958 U.N.-commissioned photographs of colonial Africa across...

Diana Cooper-Richet
fr

Presse en langue étrangère

La presse en langue étrangère, publiée d'un côté comme de l'autre de l'Atlantique, a joué un rôle...

Anaïs Fléchet, Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Olivier Compagnon
fr en

Periodizing the Atlantic

A major challenge for the Transatlantic Cultures project has been creating a historical periodization...

Florencia Dansilio
fr

Le théâtre Off

Cet article retrace les cheminements transatlantiques de la notion de "théâtre off" des années 1940 à...

Pierre-Alain Tilliette
fr

Alexandre Vattemare, pionnier des échanges culturels

Au milieu du XIXe siècle, Alexandre Vattemare s'évertua à promouvoir en Europe et dans les Amériques...

Clara Masnatta
en

Gisèle Freund: The Life of a Story-Teller with Camera, Retold

This re-appraisal of Berlin-born, French-naturalized, Jewish photographer and sociologist Gisèle...

Emilia Chamone, Frederico Lyra de Carvalho, Carlos Sandroni
pt

Maracatus transatlânticos

Grupos típicos de Pernambuco, Brasil, os maracatus expressam através de música, dança e rituais,...

Tania Regina de Luca, Nelson Schapochnik
pt

Edição

A rubrica reúne textos que enfrentam o desafio de refletir sobre a rede transnacional que, sobretudo a...

Lætitia Corbière
fr

Les Strakosch, les Maretzek et les Grau : imprésarios moraves à New York

L’histoire du concert américain s'inscrit dans l'histoire des migrations. Vers 1850, de jeunes...

Lise Delmas
fr

Gordon Parks

Cet article s'intéresse aux tensions générées par la position de Gordon Parks (1912-2006) : un...

David Marcilhacy
fr

Hispano-américanisme

Apparu dans les années 1880 et caractérisé par une grande longévité qui le fera parcourir tout le XXe...

Fabien Archambault
fr en

Sport

Considered from the point of view of sport during a long twentieth century, the Atlantic space shows...

Jacques Pothier
fr

William Faulkner, écrivain baroque de la Méditerranée américaine

Faulkner est au carrefour de plusieurs histoires littéraires mais est aussi l'inspirateur de nombreux...

Bertrand Eychenne
fr

La formation des ingénieurs colombiens au XIXe siècle

La formation des ingénieurs colombiens après l’indépendance du pays s’accompagne de diverses...

Monica Bravo
en

Modernist Photography in Mexico: Networks of Migration

As active participants in the Mexican cultural renaissance, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Manuel...

Marcos Napolitano
pt en

Transatlantic Cartographies of Popular Music in the Americas

Popular music is frequently analyzed through national ‘musical genres,’ consecrated through specific...

Gabriel Passetti
pt en

Robert FitzRoy

Robert FitzRoy was a British commander responsible of the HMS Beagle expedition between the decades of...

Vavy Pacheco Borges
pt en

Ruy Guerra, the ‘travelling filmmaker’

Ruy Guerra (RG) was born on 22/08/1931 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), capital of the Portuguese...

Karen Macknow Lisboa, Amilcar Torrão Filho
pt en

French travelers in the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century – in Brazil and in Africa

The expeditions approached by this essay allow us to see how French travelers were present in the...

José Luis Bendicho Beired
pt en

Fernando Ortiz and the Transatlantic Exchange Network

Fernando Ortizs pioneering work established the foundations for the study of the black population in...

Charlotte Bentley
en

Transatlantic operatic networks during the nineteenth century

This article explores operatic networks in the nineteenth century, with a focus on mobility between...

Anaïs Fléchet, Marcos Napolitano, Jean-Sébastien Noël
en

Music

Between the 18th and the 21st centuries, the musical transatlantic space has profoundly changed,...

Kenneth Weisbrode
en

The American Century

In 1941, the influential publisher Henry Luce declared the century “American.” The United States’ new...

Jessica Gienow-Hecht
en

US Cultural Diplomacy

The Cold War was the heyday of state-orchestrated cultural diplomacy in the U.S., at a time when many...

Eduardo Morettin
pt en

Cinema

The section approaches the historical and cultural practices that involve cinema in the transatlantic...

Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa
pt

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987) nasceu em Porto Novo (Benin). Estudou no Institut des hautes études...

Lila Foster
pt en

Domestic Cinema and Travel Films: images between Brazil and Europe (1920-1930)

In 1922, Pathé-Frères launched the Pathé-Baby projector in the French market, a small hand crank...

James Naremore
en

Orson Welles, Citizen of the World

Orson Welles was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but he often told interviewers that he was “...

Eduardo Morettin
pt en

Cinema at world’s fairs: historical and cultural practices

This article addresses the historical and cultural practices that involve the cinema in the...

Maud Quessard
fr

United States Information Agency

En 1953, la guerre froide pousse le président Eisenhower à créer une agence indépendante du...

Richard Cándida Smith
es en

Pan Americanism

The US-led Pan American Union, created in 1890, is generally understood as a form of soft power...

Julie Verlaine, Didier Aubert
fr en

Visual Arts

In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the...

Florencia Dansilio, Jean-Claude Yon
fr es en

Performing Arts

The Performing Arts section brings together articles examining the transatlantic exchange of objects,...

Ghislaine Arielle Nzouwe Nganso
fr en

Makossa

Born in Douala in the 1950s, and strongly influenced by Ghanaian highlife music, Congolese rumba and...

Laura De Oliveira
pt en

Franklin Book Programs: The Cold War and US Cultural Imperialism

Franklin Book Programs was a non-governmental US program aimed at stimulating the publishing market...

Juliette Dumont, Alexandre Fontaine, Jean-Charles Geslot
fr en

Education

Beginning in the 18th century, the field of education has been characterized by intense transatlantic...

Mateus Araujo
pt

Glauber Rocha

A dimensão transatlântica do projeto estético do cineasta brasileiro Glauber Rocha será discutida a...

Marie VERGNON
fr

Réception genevoise du Plan Dalton et de la pédagogie de Winnetka

H. Parkhurst (plan Dalton) et C. Washburne (écoles de Winnetka) sont deux pédagogues américains...

Marie VERGNON
fr

New Harmony : Owen et Pestalozzi aux États-Unis

La colonie de New Harmony (États-Unis) fut, dans les années 1820, le théâtre d’une expérience sociale...

Xavier Riondet, Samuel RENIER
fr

La réception française de la pensée de Dewey dans le champ éducatif

La pensée éducative de John Dewey a connu une réception contrastée au cours du siècle qui s’est écoulé...

Ignacio Del Valle Dávila
es

Los Nuevos Cines

Usamos el concepto de “nuevos cines” para abordar un proceso que va desde mediados de los años...

Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Jean-Sébastien Noël
fr en

Memories

Transatlantic memory and heritage evoke a permanent oscillation between universal and specific values,...

Mariana Villaça
pt

Revista Cine Cubano

A revista Cine Cubano, criada em 1960, promoveu por mais de quatro décadas a circulação de notícias e...

Tim Bergfelder
en

Disaster and Progress in Cultural Representations of the Titanic

This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Titanic disaster in 1912 in literature, art, cinema, and...

Thomas Preveraud
fr

Enseigner les mathématiques au XIXe siècle : Europe, Amériques et Afrique du nord

Un panorama des circulations savantes pour l'enseignement mathématique entre l'Europe (principalement...

Chloé Huvet
fr en

From Europe to Hollywood, and back. The Classic Hollywood Film Score

How did migrations of composers from Central and Eastern Europe to the United States shape the sound...

Mariana de Moraes Silveira
pt

Transatlântico

Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste –...

Mary Anne Junqueira
pt en

Nineteenth-Century Scientific Expeditions of the US Navy

Scientific exchanges reigned in the nineteenth century and were indispensable to the process of...

Cédric Cerruti
fr

Aimé Bonpland

Le parcours d’Aimé Bonpland met en relief les interactions et les attractions scientifiques,...

Carolina Amaral de Aguiar
pt en

The Transatlantic Voyages of Chris Marker

This article studies transatlantic networks established by film director Chris Marker. Whereas it...

Francisco Rodriguez-Jimenez
en

American Studies: the Cultural Branch of U.S. Empire?

American Studies was meant to emancipate U.S. culture from its British tutelage. It became a tool of...

Francisco Martinho
pt en

Amália Rodrigues in Africa

Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was responsible for the popularization of fado in her own country and in...

Viviana Gelado
pt en

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Born in Cangrejos, Puerto Rico, in 1874, Schomburg became close to the group of studies coordinated by...

Fabio Guilherme Poletto
pt en

Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz

The article investigates the phenomenon of Bossa Nova, its most relevant aesthetic traces and the...

Damiano Matasci
fr

Missions pédagogiques et circulation des idées pédagogiques dans l’espace transatlantique au...

Au XIXe siècle, les missions pédagogiques constituent l’un des vecteurs majeurs de la circulation des...

Sébastien-Akira Alix
fr

L’éducation américaine à l'Exposition universelle de 1900

À l’Exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris, les autorités états-uniennes présentent au public parisien...

Mariano Ben Plotkin
en

Freud and Latin America: An Early Relationship

Throughout the 20th century, psychoanalysis has generated a “culture”, vastly overflowing its original...

Caio Gomes
pt en

Nueva Canción

During the 1940s and 1950s, the arts became a symbolic battlefield and ‘folklore’ was understood as a...

Oliver Rick
en

Cycling Across the Atlantic: A discussion of cycling culture in the Atlantic Region

Cycling has gone through standardization and modernization processes that have functionally brought...

Ana Maria de Oliveira Galvão
pt en

Cordel

The essay adresses the cordel literature as part of a broader set of popular printed literature...

Juan Murillo Sandoval
es

El mundo impreso en las Exposiciones Universales

Una mirada a las razones la presencia de libros e impresos en las exposiciones universales. Se...

Ivan Lima Gomes
pt en

Comics in Newspapers, Magazines and Books: a Transatlantic Panorama

An overview of the history of comics from a transatlantic perspective. It is focused on the cultural...

Alexsandro Silva
pt en

Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Ducados, known as Sarah Maldoror, is considered to be the first black woman to make cinema in...

Cibele Barbosa
pt en

Gilberto Freyre and the geopolitics of race: the transatlantic circulation of Casa-grande &...

How did Casa-grande & senzala , Gilberto Freyre's main work, navigate between different scenarios and...

Fabiola Rodríguez Barba
es

La diplomacia cultural de México en el Siglo XX

La diplomacia cultural fue un componente importante en la política exterior de México a lo largo del...

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
pt fr es en

South Atlantic

South Atlantic is approached as a space of circulation over three distinct periods. The first begins...

Maria Ligia Coelho Prado, Valdir Donizete Santos Junior
pt en

Robinson Crusoe

In 1719, Daniel Defoe published The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The story and the...

Juliette Dumont, Didier Aubert
fr en

Cultural Diplomacy from Propaganda to Soft Power

Either directly or through the non-governmental institutions and actors, states have also played a...

Jean-Yves Mollier
fr en

Transatlantic authors in European publishing after 1945

This article on the circulation of books in the transatlantic space starts with a historically datable...

Ludovic Tournès
fr en

The Rockefeller Foundation and the international funding of science (1920s-1950s)

The history of the Rockefeller Foundation’s international science policy highlights the pivotal role...

Dominique Lejeune
fr

Les Sociétés françaises de Géographie : savoirs et explorations atlantiques (1821-1923)

Les Sociétés de Géographie et autres Geographical Societies cherchèrent à faire partager à un public...

Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni
pt en

Académie Julian: the French artistic model from a Transatlantic perspective (1880-1920)

Académie Julian was founded in 1867 in Montmartre, offering students studies of live models and...

Simon Perego
fr en

Yiddish: Language, Culture and Memory from the late 19th century to the present

From the late 19th century, the Yiddish language and culture had an intensely transatlantic moment...

Jean-Charles Geslot
fr en

Artistic Education and Artist Training

The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...

Clément Astruc
fr en

Pelé and the world

From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, Pelé was the leading figure in football, a sport that...

Clara Bouveresse
en

Was “American” Photography a European Invention?

This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s...

Clara Bouveresse
fr en

Photographic agencies

Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...

Cécile Cottenet
fr en

Literary Agents

Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...

Giulia Bonacci
fr en

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) is a major figure of Black nationalism and Pan Africanism. An...

Anaïs Fléchet
pt fr en

Gilberto Gil

“I knew that music would be my language and that I would discover the world through it.” From the ...

Lúcia Granja
pt en

Garnier Publishers: from France to the Transatlantic Space

Garnier Booksellers-Publishers were the first international company specialized in books. It existed...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares
pt en

The Book of Knowledge between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’ World: history of an encyclopedia

The Children’s Encyclopaedia, created by Arthur Mee in England, in early 20th century, became, by the...

Didier Aubert
en

Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti's Letter

Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...

Erin Nolan, Emily Voelker
en

Reading Across American and Ottoman Archives: Diplomacy and Photography in the Nineteenth...

Album exchanges between American and Ottoman powers (c.1880-1910) reveal a networked history of...

Andrea Gremels
en

Wifredo Lam and Transversal Surrealism

Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam was a key figure of Surrealism's transversal network in the 20th...

Priscila Dorella
pt

Susan Sontag: uma intelectual pública

Judia, Susan Sontag nasceu em New York, estudou literatura, filosofia e teologia em renomadas...

Hélène Quanquin
en

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass’s life stood at the crossroads of the national and transatlantic connections that...

Ângela Meirelles de Oliveira
pt en

Henri Barbusse: pacifism and antifacism in the Americas

One of the first ‘war novels’ to be published in the twentieth century, Le Feu made Henri Barbusse...

Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz
fr

Faire comprendre la Suisse aux Américains : la radio internationale helvétique après la...

La radio, en particulier avec le développement des ondes courtes, est un outil indispensable au...

Henri Arraes Gervaiseau
pt en

Immigrants in New York: Cinematographic Representations (1898-1914)

Statue of Liberty, a small film of approximately fifty seconds produced by the Thomas Edison Company,...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Richard Cándida Smith, Olivier Compagnon
en

Intellectuals

This section examine how the movements of thinkers and ideas around the Atlantic basin produced...