Title Paris in the Americas

Published Wilmington, DE : Vernon Art and Science Inc., 2022

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Description 1 online resource (215 p.) Series Curating and Interpreting Culture Ser Curating and Interpreting Culture Ser Contents Plural identities, Paris pluriels / Carole Salmon -- Part I. Paris in the Americas : cultural productions. Parisian vaudeville in America : the Ravel and Martinetti troupes at the origins of early modern American popular entertainment / Elena Mazzoleni -- Existential feminism and fashion in America / Anne Quinney -- French style comes to the American middle class : The Jackie Effect / William G. Allen -- Between the Big Apple and the City of Light : fashion, film, and Paris as "Capitale de la monde" in Funny Face (1957), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and Mademoiselle C (2013) / Marcelline Block -- Typically American Paris? From Vidocq to Leduc and back again / Cheryl A. Morgan -- The anxiety of the other side : Paris in the comteporary Argentine novel / Eunice Rojas -- Part II. Paris in the Americas : urban connections. "For us the city of diamond or cut crystal" : the Brazilian conception of Paris during the long nineteenth century (1808-1914) / Roderick J. Barman -- Weaving a transnational dialogue : from Paris to Mexico City / Angélica Lozano-Alonso and Carole Salmon -- D.C. and Paris : transnational networks in city planning, literature, and politics / John Sampson -- A green urban connection : the elevated railway gardens of Paris and New York / Susan Keith -- From urban image to urban imaginary : shaping the Paris of Latin America in a global perspective / Gruina Badescu Summary Across centuries, France - and especially its capital city, Paris - established itself as a major source of influence across the Americas through colonization, diplomacy and political influence, but also through intellectualism and cultural productions of all sorts, either by imposition, exportation or as a trend of fashion via a bilateral transatlantic movement of people and ideas. In itself, the influence of Paris, the "capital of the world," as Patrice Higonnet (2002) analyzes it, is similar to phantasmagoria, which results in a transatlantic fascination for the city of lights and all the tangible or intangible elements that function as its embodiment. As Stuart Hall explains, understanding cultures and languages and their representations through various manifestations presupposes that we can identify, understand and interpret the signs that constitute their core identity. (Hall 2013). In an interdisciplinary approach, this multi-authored, edited volume examines the long-established relationships between Paris and cities across the American continent, in the past as well as in the present time. In order to explore all aspects of Paris's influence(s) in the Americas, this volume is organized around two main axes of analysis: first, in a geographical progression from North to South, the reader is invited to reflect upon cultural productions that demonstrate the many influences of Paris in the Americas through theater, literature, philosophy, fashion and cinema (chapters 1 to 6). In the following chapters (7 to 11), the volume focuses particularly on a variety of urban connections that take the reader from South to North this time, analyzing tangible architectural and urban design influences of Paris in major cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, or Washington D.C. In today's global world, this multifaceted study of Paris' visible and invisible influences in the Americas clearly reveals the transnational intersections of spaces, languages, people and cultures. --Publisher Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject French Americans -- History Franco-Americans -- History Diplomatic relations Franco-Americans French Americans Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) France -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations -- United States France -- Foreign relations -- South America South America -- Foreign relations -- France Paris (France) -- Influence France France -- Paris South America United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1648895395 9781648895395

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