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In 1931, the Éditions Firmin-Didot published La route de Paris à la Méditerranée. The text was written by Paul Morand and illustrated by several photographers, including Germaine Krull, who took most of the pictures. The book describes the route between Paris and the Côte d'Azur and highlights a number of stopover sites. Through geographical, historical and lifestyle descriptions of the inhabitants of these places of interest, the book is more a portrait of France than a travelogue. The automobile used by the author and photographer to travel from the capital to Nice determines their journey, but also the story and the images it produces. Our analysis of La route de Paris à la Méditerranée reveals that the journey is a pretext to providing a phototextual portrait of a country, and that automotive and photographic technology have a major impact on the way this portrait is produced.
Keywords: Paul Morand, Germaine Krull, entre-deux-guerres, modernité photographique, édition photographique, (book), Paul Morand, Germaine Krull, interwar period, photographic modernity, photographic publishing
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ABSTRACTIn this article, the author proposes to explore the conditions of possibility of a phenomenon : the appearance on our film and television screens of arrangements that, given their nature, can not be understood according to the conditions of neither diegetization, nor narrativization. This cinema of a new genre, that plays with heterogeneous materials and produces a space to be explored, "a cinema of exposition" therefore, raises the question of intermediality. This question then leads to an archeological enterprise that draws on the theoretical reflections of Eisenstein.
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To understand the political engagements of writers in the Dreyfus case, one must consider their situation in the existing fields of literature and politics. The "dominated"pole of the literary camp (the poetic avant-garde) was mainly pro-Dreyfus. The dominant pole, on the other hand, which was composed of the French Academy and the writers who surrounded it, was anti-Dreyfus. The middle sector (novelists and those who wrote for the boulevard theater) was equally divided, the naturalist movement for example. Knowledge of the political roles played by these different groups is essential to the understanding of their choices. The avant-garde initiated the struggle in order to assert the purist values which it upheld in literature. The Academy, on the other hand, reacted in order to protect the traditional cultural order. Those who were rejected by the dominant pole used their audience in the political arena to launch the "affaire", Zola for example. Those who would approach the dominant pole remained neutral or were anti-Dreyfus. On the whole, the case shows that intellectuals were dominated in the political arena and could not, in the end, come to a decision. The social position of intellectuals in France is linked to the growth of their numbers and this is important, for the more numerous they are, the less they can decide.
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The Henry Subscription provides a rare insight into the structure and function of antisemitism at the popular level, in France in the 1890's and generally. The paper first analyses the geographical distribution of subscribers, finding that their incidence was high in the East and the South-East in particular, for very different reasons, and that they came predominantly from cities and small towns. The break-down of subscribers by profession, which follows, indicates a high incidence among the military and the Catholic clergy, but also among workers and artisans, students and the liberal professions. Surprisingly, incidence was low among white-collar workers, and average among small traders. Finally, analysis of the messages accompanying subscriptions suggests that antisemitism had a powerful explanatory as well as compensatory function in circumstances of rapid social change. In the face of change it affirmed a set of absolute values in opposition to the Jew, who was characterised very particularly asa polluting agent. As such he had to be eliminated from the city, though such elimination was envisaged in symbolic and not actual terms
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