Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture

Dudley Andrew, R Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature Dudley Andrew, Steven Ungar, James Dudley Andrew, Professor of French and Chair of Cinema & Comparative Literature Steven Ungar — 2005

The authors highlight the new symbolic forces put in play by technologies of the illustrated press and the sound film - technologies that converged with efforts among writers, artists, and other intellectuals to respond to the crises of the decade.