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Vive La Différence: Hollywood And France, 1914-1945, Louise G. Hilton
Vive La Différence: Hollywood And France, 1914-1945, Louise G. Hilton
LSU Master's Theses
France in the early decades of the 20th century underwent a profound identity crisis. Torn between tradition and modernity, the country perceived itself to be isolated internationally and threatened politically, economically, and culturally by both internal and external forces. In French eyes, the United States moved rapidly from an ally to an adversary that not only opposed France on major foreign policy issues after World War I, but threatened the European continent both economically and culturally. For broad segments of the French elite, the United States represented modernity – and everything that was wrong with it. Contributing powerfully to anti-American …