homo americanus and the post-1960 French resistance
Les Essif.
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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Introduction: Part 1 --;Introduction: Part 2 --;1: The Hyperreality Of The Western Frontier --;2: "Homo Americanus" War And Violence --;3: The Totalitarian Non-Tragedy Of Americano-Global Business --;4: The (Supra- )Global Spectacle Of American (Non- )Community --;Conclusion: Blob, Screen, And Corn: Final Figures of the "Homo Americanus" Hyperreal.
A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver.
DRAMA -- Continental European.
French drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.