2019-2020 Academic Year
France during World War II:
Resistance and Collaboration
General Readings on Resistance, and Collaboration in France
- Bankwitz, Philip C.F., "Maxime Weygand and the Fall of France: A Study in Civil-Military Relations," The Journal of Modern History, 31/3 (September 1959), pp.225-242.
- Bracher, Nathan, "Remembering the French Resistance: Ethics and Poetics of the Epic," History and Memory, 19/1 (Spring/Summer 2007), pp.39-67.
- Gildea, Robert, Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance (London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 2016)
- Gordon, Bertram M. (ed.), Historical Dictionary of World War II France: The Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance, 1938-1946 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998)
- Lemmes, Fabian, "Collaboration in Wartime France, 1940-1944," European Review of History, 15/2 (April 2008), pp.157-177.
- Wieviorka, Olivier, The French Resistance [translated by Jane Marie Todd] (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2016)
L'oeil de Vichy / Eye of Vichy
- Bowles, Brett, "German Newsreel Propaganda in France, 1940-1944," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 24 (2004), pp.45-67.
- Bowles, Brett, "Illuminating the Dark Years: French Wartime Newsreels on DVD," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 27 (2007), pp.119-125.
- Campbell, Caroline, "Review of Debbie Lackerstein's National Regeneration in Vichy France: Ideas and Policies, 1930-1944," Modern & Contemporary France, 21 (2013), pp.250-251.
- Dodd, Lindsey, "Children's Citizenly Participation in the National Revolution: The Instrumentalization of Children in Vichy France," European Review of History, 24 (2017), pp.759-780.
- Grottle Strebel, Elizabeth, "French Cinema, 1940-1944, and its Socio-Pyschological Significance: A Preliminary Probe," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1 (1981), pp.33-45.
- Roth, Michael S., "Review of L'oeil de Vichy by Claude Chabrol," The American Historical Review, 99/4 (October 1994), pp.1242-1244.
- Tegel, Susan, "Third Reich Newsreels--An EffectiveTool of Propaganda?" Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 24 (2004), pp.143-154.
Le Passage du Rhin / Tomorrow Is My Turn
- Fried, John H. E., "Transfer of Civilian Manpower from Occupied Territory," The American Journal of International Law, 40/2 (April 1946), pp.303-331.
- Herbert, Ulrich, "Forced Laborers in the Third Reich: An Overview," International Labor and Working-Class History, No.58 (Fall 2000), pp.192-218.
- Pesnel, Louis, "Service du Travail Obligatoire (Compulsory Work Service): A Parenthesis of Several Months," Mémoires de Guerre: World War II Stories
- Sapiro, Giselle, "Portrait of the Writer as a Traitor: The French Purge Trials, 1944-1953," Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone, 4/2 (2006).
- Thonfeld, Christoph, "Memories of Former World War Two Forced Labourers: An International Comparison," Oral History, 39/2 (Autumn 2011), pp.33-48.
- Thurlow, Katherine Michelle, Blurring the Lines between Resistance and Collaboration: Women in Nazi Germany and Vichy and Nazi-Occupied France during World War II (The College of William and Mary, M.A. thesis, 2017)
- White, Eugene N., "The Long Shadow of Vichy: The Economic Consequences of Occupation," in Jonas Scherner and Eugene N. White (eds.), Paying for Hitler's War: The Consequences of Nazi Economic Hegemony of Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp.103-125.
- Altman, Charles F., "Lacombe, Lucien: Laughter as Collaboration," The French Review, 49/4 (March 1976), pp.549-558.
- Bowles, Brett, "Review Article: Gender, Cultural History, and French Cinema of the Occupation," Modern & Contemporary France, 17/2 (May 2009), pp.211-219.
- Dawson, Jan, "Louis Malle on Lacombe, Lucien," Film Comment, 10/5 (September-October 1974), pp.36-37.
- Frey, Hugo, "Malle's Histories," in his Louis Malle (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004), pp.90-114.
- Hewitt, Leah D., "Salubrious Scandals/Effective Provocations: Identity Politics Surrounding Lacombe Lucien," South Central Review, 17/3 (Autumn 2000), pp.71-87.
- Horton, Andrew, "Creating a Reality that Doesn't Exist: An Interview with Louis Malle," Literature/Film Quarterly, 7/2 (1979), pp.86-98.
- Jankowski, Paul, "In Defense of Fiction: Resistance, Collaboration, and Lacombe, Lucien," The Journal of Modern History, 63/3 (September 1991), pp.457-482.
- Johnstone, Robert, "Lacombe, Lucien," Fortnight, No.120 (February 6, 1976), pp.16-17.
- Keyser, Lester J., "Three Faces of Evil: Fascism in Recent Movies," Journal of Popular Film, 4/1 (1975), pp.21-31.
- Atack, Margaret, "Performing the Nation in the Mode Rétro," Journal of War & Culture Studies, 9/4 (November 2016), pp.335-347.
- Bowd, Gavin, "Romanians of the French Resistance," French History, 28/4 (December 2014), pp.541-559.
- Davison, Phil, "Arsène Tchakarian, World War II Resistance Fighter in France, Dies at 101," The Washington Post, August 11, 2018.
- French, Philip, "Army of Crime," The Guardian, October 4, 2009.
- Holden, Stephen, "Outsiders in French Society, Battling Occupiers, and Collaborators," The New York Times, August 19, 2010.
- Lemercier, Fabien, "Foreign Martyrs Die for France in The Army of Crime," Cineuropa, May 17, 2009.
- Meisler, Stanley, "French Controversy Flares Over Role of Communist Party in Resistance," Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1985.
- Morris, Alan, "An Ever-Present Past: Didier Daeninckx and the Manouchian Resistance Group," Journal of War & Culture Studies, 8/3 (August 2015), pp.254-268.
- Navarrete, Marcela, "Movie Is Homage to Internationalism: The Army of Crime," Socialist Lawyer, No.55 (July 2010), pp.33-34.
- Orange, Michelle, "Freedom Fighters for France in WWII Epic Army of Crime," The Village Voice, August 18, 2010.
- Shachar, Hila, "Representing the Unrepresentable: The Army of Crime and Biopic Generic Conventions of Identity," in Deborah Cartwell and Ashley D. Polasek (eds.), A Companion to the Biopic (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020), pp.191-208.
- Brucks, Xan, "The Sorrow and the Pity," The Guardian, May 21, 2004.
- Busi, Frederick, "Marcel Ophuls and The Sorrow and the Pity," The Massachusetts Review, 14/1 (Winter 1973), pp.177-186.
- Frodon, Jean-Michel, "People and Ideas: Working at the Human Level (Interview with Marcel Ophuls)," Aperture, No.142 (Winter 1996), pp.70-71.
- Gallagher, Michael, "Marcel Ophuls: An Interview," Film Criticism, 2/1 (Fall 1977), pp.32-35.
- Hoffmann, Stanley, "On The Sorrow and the Pity," Commentary, September 1972.
- Jacobsen, Kurt, "Memories of Injustice: Marcel Ophuls' Cinema of Conscience," Film Comment, 32/4 (July-August 1996), pp.61-67.
- Jeffries, Stuart, "A Nation Shamed," The Guardian, January 23, 2004.
- Mahoney, James, "The Sorrow and the Pity," CrossCurrents, 22/4 (Winter 1973), pp.442-445.
- Manchel, Frank, "A War over Justice: An Interview with Marcel Ophuls," Literature/Film Quarterly, 6/1 (Winter 1978), pp.26-47.
- Model, Katherine, Documenting Denial: Atrocities, Perpetrators, and the Documentary Interview (Ph.D. Thesis, New York University, 2016)
- Petrakis, John, "Sorrow: A Complete Look at How the French Dealt with the Nazis," Chicago Tribune, July 14, 2000.
- Powers, Thom, "Marcel Ophuls in Conversation with Thom Powers," School of Visual Arts, October 8, 2015.
L'armée des ombres / Army of Shadows
- Adler, A. Jay, "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows," Bright Lights Film Journal, August 1, 2006.
- Breitbart, Eric, "Call Me Melville," New England Review, 27/3 (2006), pp.174-182.
- Dargis, Manohla, "Army of Shadows Takes a Hard Look at a Horrible and Marvelous Time," The New York Times, April 28, 2006.
- Dow, William, "Dorothy Day and Joseph Kessel: 'A Literature of Urgency'," Prose Studies, 33/2 (August 2011), pp.132-153.
- Ebert, Roger, "Army of Shadows," May 21, 2006.
- Fay, Sidney B., "Review of Joseph Kessel's L'armée des ombres," Books Abroad, 20/1 (Winter 1946), p.58.
- Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy, "Army of Shadows," Cinéaste, 31/4 (Fall 2006), pp.68-71.
- French, Philip, "L'armée des ombres," The Guardian, March 19, 2006.
- Guérard, Albert, "Review of Joseph Kessel's L'armée des ombres," Books Abroad, 18/4 (Autumn 1944), p.354.
- Pulver, Andrew, "Army in the Shadows," The Guardian, March 17, 2006.
- Taubin, Amy, "Underground Men: Nobody Gets Out Alive in Army of Shadows, Jean-Pierre Melville's French Resistance Masterpiece," Film Comment, 42/3 (May/June 2006), pp.50-53.
- Abidor, Mitchell, "No Heroes," Jewish Currents, September 3, 2019.
- Atack, Margaret, "Performing the Nation in the Mode Rétro," Journal of War and Culture Studies, 9/4 (November 2016), pp.335-347.
- Brody, Richard, "Mr. Klein: A Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris," The New Yorker, September 6, 2019.
- Brown, Royal S., "Mr. Klein," Cinéaste, 24/1 (1998), pp.82-83.
- Carr, Jeremy, "Guilty by Association: Joseph Losey's Mr. Klein," Mubi, September 5, 2019.
- Combs, Richard, "Double Play," Film Comment, 40/2 (March-April 2004), pp.44-49.
- Lane, Anthony, "The Hour of Reckoning Descends in Mr. Klein," The New Yorker, August 30, 2019.
- Mayer, Peter, "Mr. Klein and the Other," Film Quarterly, 34/2 (Winter 1980-1981), pp.35-39.
- Turan, Kenneth, "Joseph Losey's 1976 Classic Mr. Klein Starring Alain Delon Still Enthralls," Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2019.
- Weedman, Christopher, "Mr. Klein," Senses of Cinema, July 2010.
- Brunetaux, Audrey, "Revisiting the Vel d'Hiv Roundup through the Camera Lens," History and Memory, 26/1 (Spring/Summer 2014), pp.136-162.
- Carrier, Peter, "Paris: The Vél d'Hiv and the Promise of National Reconciliation," in his Holocaust Monuments and National Memory: France and Germany since 1989 (New York: Beghahn Books, 2005), pp.49-98.
- Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy, "Review of Sarah's Key and La Rafle," Cinéaste, 36/4 (Fall 2011), pp.51-54.
- Gomet, Doriane and Thierry Terret, "To Be a Jew and Champion in Vichy's France: Alfred Nakache—From the Swimming Pool to the Nazi Camps, 1940-44," The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26/15 (December 2009), pp.2182-2200.
- Gorrara, Claire, "New Departures: Re-reading the Occupation in the 1990s," Modern & Contemporary France, 2/1 (1994), pp.58-61.
- Lees, David, "Remembering the Vél d'Hiv Roundup," Warwick Knowledge Centre Archive.
- McAuley, James, "Marine Le Pen: France 'Not Responsible' for Deporting Jews during Holocaust," The Washington Post, April 10, 2017.
- "Marine Le Pen Denies French Role in Wartime Roundup of Paris Jews," The Guardian, April 9, 2017.
- Prorokova, Tatiana, "The Holocaust in Film: Witnessing the Extermination through the Eyes of Children," Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 24/3 (2018), pp.377-394.
- "Rafle de Vélodrom d'Hiver," Wikipedia.
- Simms, Norman, "A Cycle of Judicial Memory and Immoral Forgetting: Vel d'Hiv 1942," Shofar, 30/2 (Winter 2012), pp.123-137.
Section spéciale / Special Section
- Jaggi, Maya, "French Resistance: Costa-Gavras," The Guardian, April 4, 2009.
- "Section spéciale," The Case for Global Film, December 10, 2017.
- Ausman, Tasha, "Corpo/realities in Times of Educational Crisis: Trauma, Consumption and Dialogue in Au revoir les enfants," Procedia—Social and Behavioral Sciences, 174 (2015), pp.1048-1056.
- Bradshaw, Peter, "Au revoir les enfants Review: Every Scene Is Masterful," The Guardian, January 28, 2015.
- Bradshaw, Peter, "Why Au revoir les enfants Is the One Film You Should Watch This Week—Video Review," The Guardian, January 29, 2015.
- Champlin, Charles, "Au revoir les enfants Rooted in the Memory of Louis Malle," Los Angeles Times, February 18, 1988.
- Frey, Hugo, "Primal Scenes," in his Louis Malle (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), pp.115-141.
- Hickenlooper, George, "My Discussion with Louis: An Interview with Louis Malle," Cinéaste, 18/2 (1991), pp.12-17.
- Kidd, William, "Occupation—Liberation: A View from the lycée," Journal of War & Culture Studies, 8/3 (August 2015), pp.214-227.
- Malle, Justine, "The Figure of the Mother in May Fools, Au revoir les enfants and Murmur of the Heart," in Philippe Met (ed.), The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), pp.116-126.
- New, Elisa, "Good-bye Children; Good-bye Mary, Mother of Sorrows: The Church and the Holocaust in the Art of Louis Malle," Prooftexts, 22/1-2 (Winter-Spring 2002), pp.118-140.
- Richman, Darren, "Movies You Might Have Missed: Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants," The Independent, January 31, 2018.