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Yaniv Arroua
fr

La Haute-Vienne à l’heure américaine

À quel rythme, quand et comment s’américanisent les provinces françaises ? Cet article retrace l’...

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...

Catherine Rudent
fr

Les années yéyé : des chansons américaines sous-titrées ?

Au début des années 1960, les chansons yéyé sont réputées responsables d'une irruption massive de...

Florencia Dansilio, Jean-Claude Yon
fr es en

Performing Arts

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

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...

Marcos Napolitano
pt

“C’era un Ragazzo...Era un muchacho...Era um garoto...”: uma balada pop italiana e seus ecos...

“C’era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones” gravada originalmente em italiano,...

Sébastien Carney
fr

Le revival de la musique bretonne : une déclinaison locale des contre-cultures américaines

Au tournant des années des années 1960 et 1970, un mouvement revivaliste a produit en Bretagne ce que...

David Bellos
en

Romain Gary: How to Be Someone Else

The novelist Romain Gary had two connected but quite distinct literary careers, in two languages and...

Jean-Loup Bourget
fr en

Hitchcock, an Englishman in Hollywood

Alfred Hitchcock's entire career was transatlantic. After fulfilling his dream of accessing Hollywood’...

Edward Berenson
fr en

Levitt-villes in France

In 1965, William Levitt, America’s largest home builder and creator of the famous Levittowns,...

Julien Desprez
fr

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, marraine de l’Amérique?

C’est dans la ville lorraine de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, en France, que le mot America fut édité pour la...

Didier Aubert
en

Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti’s Letter

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

Charlotte Servel
fr en

Soupault and USA: cinema and Surrealist poetry in the Roaring Twenties

In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity...

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...

Yannick Séité
fr en

Can one « jazz » the French language ?

The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion,...

Manon Fabre
fr en

Ray Ventura and His Collegians: from imitation to a Franco-American hybrid

In the early 1930s, Ray Ventura and His Collegians recorded in Paris covers of hit songs from...

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont
fr en

Blanche and Alfred Knopf: circulating transatlantic literature

In 1915, the Knopfs founded a publishing company focusing on translations of contemporary European...

Clara Bouveresse
fr en

Photographic agencies

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

Mariana de Moraes Silveira
pt

Transatlântico

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

Juliette Dumont, Didier Aubert
pt fr en

Diplomacia cultural: entre propaganda e soft power

Diretamente ou por intermédio de instituições e atores não governamentais, os Estados tiveram papel...

Pierre Fargeton
fr en

Ray Ventura, jazz and French chanson: an ambiguous Americanization

In the 1930s, Ray Ventura and his Collégiens established themselves as a model of French chanson,...

Michael J. Kramer
en

The Transatlantic Ballad of Alan Lomax

Studying vocal performance styles during his time in Europe during the 1950s, the US ethnomusicologist...

Nicolas Hatzfeld
fr en

American working methods in Jacques Tati’s films and on French television

Jacques Tati’s films lampoon France’s fascination with the United States during the early postwar...

Sébastien Darbon
fr en

From Public Schools to the Pampas: Elements for an Atlantic History of Rugby

Created at around the same time as football/soccer, rugby spread out from England along the pathways...

Synthia Sydnor, Robert Rinehart
en

Johnny Weissmuller

From swimming pools (five Olympic gold medals) to Hollywood, including his appearance in Tarzan,...

Florencia Dansilio
fr en

Off theater

This article traces the transatlantic movements of the idea of alternative theater from the 1940s to...

François Chaubet
fr

L’Alliance française sur le continent américain

Tournée vers le continent américain dès son origine, l’Alliance française développa ses propres...

Françoise Blum
fr

La Maison de l’Afrique à la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

Créée au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Maison de la France d’Outre-mer, devenue Maison de l...

Sébastien Darbon
fr

Une géographie sociale et culturelle du baseball

La diffusion du baseball hors du pays qui l’a vu naître peut paraître assez déroutante: très faible...

Axel Gasquet
fr

L’orientalisme hispano-américain

L’orientalisme hispano-américain est une dimension de la production littéraire hispanique depuis 1810....

Jacques Pothier
fr

Littérature

Les littératures atlantiques ont été le véhicule privilégié de l'histoire culturelle du Monde...

Fabien Archambault
fr en

The 1972 Olympics basketball final between the Soviet Union and the United States

The game marked a turning point in the sport’s history on both sides of the Atlantic. Due to...

Patrick Cabanel
fr

Les déclinaisons atlantiques du Tour de France par deux enfants

Livre de lecture par excellence de l’école laïque sous la Troisième République, Le Tour de la France...

Nicolas Le Guern
en

European research in Kodak’s early years

For nearly a century, knowledge management by the Kodak company relied on the circulation of...

André Egg
pt en

Música de concerto no Brasil

O modernismo musical brasileiro foi também um produto das circulações transatlânticas de obras e...

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...

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...

Steve Hagimont
fr en

Spas

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lise Delmas
fr

Gordon Parks

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

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...

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

Cartografias transatlânticas da música popular nas américas

A música popular é frequentemente analisada a partir de “gêneros musicais” nacionais. A historiografia...

José Luis Bendicho Beired
pt en

Fernando Ortiz e a rede transatlântica de intercâmbios

Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) desenvolveu uma obra pioneira que estabeleceu os fundamentos para o estudo...

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...

Eduardo Morettin
pt en

Cinema

A seção se ocupa das práticas históricas e culturais que envolvem o cinema no espaço transatlântico,...

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

Cinema doméstico e filmes de viagem: imagens entre o Brasil e a Europa (1920-1930)

Em 1922, a empresa Pathé-Frères lançou no mercado francês o projetor Pathé-Baby, um pequeno aparelho...

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

O cinema nas exposições universais: práticas históricas e culturais

O artigo se ocupa das práticas históricas e culturais que envolvem o cinema no espaço transatlântico,...

Maud Quessard
fr

United States Information Agency

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

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...

Laura De Oliveira
pt en

Franklin Book Programs: Guerra fria e imperialismo cultural norte-americano

O Franklin Book Programs foi um programa não governamental norte-americano dedicado à promoção do...

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...

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...

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...

Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Jean-Sébastien Noël
fr en

Memories

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

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...

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 em África

Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) foi responsável pela popularização do fado em seu país e nas colônias...

Viviana Gelado
pt en

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Nascido em Cangrejos, Porto Rico, em 1874, Schomburg aproximou-se do grupo de estudos coordenado pelo...

Fabio Guilherme Poletto
pt en

Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz

Nascida no Brasil como um grande marco para a música popular, conforme sua circulação pelo mundo, a...

Caio Gomes
pt en

Nueva Canción

Nos anos 1940s e 1950s, as artes latino-americanas se tornaram um campo de batalha e o folclore foi...

Ana Maria de Oliveira Galvão
pt en

Cordel

O texto apresenta a literatura de cordel como parte de um conjunto mais amplo de impressos de larga...

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

Histórias em quadrinhos em jornais, revistas e livros : um panorama transatlântico

Um panorama sobre a história das histórias em quadrinhos em perspectiva transatlântica, com foco nas...

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

Atlantico Sul

O Atlântico Sul é um espaço de circulação abordado em três períodos distintos. O primeiro se inicia...

Maria Ligia Coelho Prado, Valdir Donizete Santos Junior
pt en

Robinson Crusoé

Em 1719, o romance de Daniel Defoe, Vida e Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe, teve inúmeras edições e se...

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...

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...

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

“Eu soube que a música era minha linguagem, mesmo. Que a música ia me levar a conhecer o mundo”. Do...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares
pt en

The Book of Knowledge entre o "Velho" e o "Novo" Mundo: história de uma enciclopédia.

The Children’s Encyclopaedia, criada por Arthur Mee na Inglaterra, no início do século XX, foi...

Jean-Sébastien Noël
fr en

Luigi Nono: Revolutionary Experiences and American Networks

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

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...

Ângela Meirelles de Oliveira
pt en

Henri Barbusse : pacifismo e antifacismo nas Américas

Um dos primeiros “romances de guerra” a ser publicado no século XX, o livro Le Feu popularizou Henri...

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

Imigrantes em Nova Iorque: Representações cinematográficas (1898-1914)

Statue of liberty, pequeno filme de aproximadamente cinqüenta segundos, produzido pela Thomas Edison...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Richard Cándida Smith, Olivier Compagnon
en

Intellectuals

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

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...

Mariano Ben Plotkin
en

Freud and Latin America: An Early Relationship

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