Modern & Contemporary France

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern & Contemporary France is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
What Ails France7
Twenty-first-century symbolism, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé5
Lesbian decadence: representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle France4
Intermedial dialogues: the French new wave and the other arts4
From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’4
The reclining nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin3
On ne parle pas franglais. La langue française face à l’anglais3
La Nation en récit3
The Routledge handbook of French politics and culture3
Stendhal2
Histoire, bande dessinée et positionnement éthique : présence et fonction narrative du personnage de Pétain dans La Balade nationale (2017) de Sylvain Venayre et Etienne2
Empire and catastrophe: decolonization and environmental disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 19542
Redrawing the territories of desire and melancholy: Le Voyage homoérotique. The travel writings and films of Gide, Duvert, Barthes, Genet, Taïa, Rachid O., Vallois and Bouzid2
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty2
France2
French military masculinities and the birth ofcinéma colonial: triangulating queer desire in Jacques Feyder’sL’Atlantide(1921)1
Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition1
Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–20171
Herminie and Fanny Pereire, elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France1
Ni d’ici ni d’ailleurs : l’impossible appartenance de l’immigré maghrébin chez Mouloud Feraoun et Ben Jelloun1
Un-layering Greece: imagined classical heritages in French nationalist travel writing1
« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique1
Invisible chain: breaking the taboo of abortion in Jeanne Caruchet’s L’Ensemencée (1904), Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Audrey Diw1
Riposter à un crime d’Etat. Le rôle méconnu du PSU dans la mobilisation contre la répression de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961 à Paris1
‘Mais qui va garder les enfants?' Postfeminist retraditionalism in Sylvie Testud’sLa Vie d’une autre(2012)1
Michel Serres and the parasitic unmaking of modernity1
Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century1
Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour entre roman et politique : Parcours croisé1
Paradoxes and limitations in enacting Jewish-Muslim dialogue in contemporary France: case studies of interreligious and intercultural dialogue initiatives1
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan. A political biography1
L’institution des revues dans le champ littéraire vietnamien francophone à l’époque coloniale1
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language1
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 681
The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited)1
L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency1
Filiations abortives : l’avortement dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain1
Elemental Ecocritique of Normandy’s Industrial-Era Coast in Zola’s La joie de vivre1
The politics of imperial memory in France, 1850–19001
Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics , by Elizabeth Benjamin, Bristol, Peter Lan1
Urban bridges, global capitals: trans-Mediterranean Francosphères1
Jeux de mots et créativité. Langue(s), discours et littérature0
Regional dress between tradition and modernity0
Queer, plastic residues: biological mutability and queer resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the work of Catherine Malabou0
The memory of colonialism in Britain and France: the sins of silence0
France, you love it but leave it: the silent flight of French Muslims0
Michel Serres’s Le parasite : the noise of the world at work0
Necrofiction and the politics of literary memory0
Precarity as a mode of being-in-the-world in Michel Houellebecq’s Possibilité d’une Île0
Les Manufactures de nos rêves: les studios de cinéma français des années 19300
‘Si je t’étranglais ?’ De la masculinité blessée au fantasme de féminicide chez Roland Dorgelès0
Serres’ textual parasitism and his search for a material language0
Un sang d’encre : Du corps en littérature contemporaine0
Postcolonial realms of memory: sites and symbols in modern France0
Il était une fois… le Hirak au pays natal0
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature0
‘He didn’t really talk about it’: the (re)construction and transmission of a Free French past0
Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
Princesses, Tomboy s and ‘gender theory’: film, family and school as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars of twenty-first-century France0
Soukaz in space: visuality, protest and appropriation in the films of Lionel Soukaz0
Courtesan and Countess: The lost and found memoirs of the French Consul’s wife0
Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France , by Sean Quinlan, Ithaca, Co0
The fuzzy logics of parasitism: catachresis and prognosis in Michel Serres0
‘House is not universal. House is hyper-specific’: dance music sequences and affect in 120 BPM and Eden0
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789–20220
Making waves: French feminisms and their legacies 1975-20150
Between neo-liberalism and the nation: France’s political landscape in 20220
Making sense of the ordinary through discursive practices: a French ‘socio-writing’ turn?0
France’s party system in 20220
D’un roman plus que le nom: Édouard Louis’s Histoire de la violence, a reflexive, gay novel0
Commissioning memorial reconciliation: the Stora Report and Algeria’s Ottoman cannon in France0
Today sardines are not for sale0
Empires of the mind: the colonial past and the politics of the present0
Women moralists in early modern France0
Looking back on a nation’s struggle: women’s reflections on the Algerian War of liberation0
Digging holes, excavating the present, mining the future: extractivism, time, and memory in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s and Sammy Baloji’s works0
Frontier poetry: new adventures in contemporary French horror cinema0
France’s wars in Chad: military intervention and decolonization in Africa0
Inventing the natural contract0
Defying normativity in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro: instantanés0
Louis-René des Forêts and inner autobiography0
The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics , by Helena Duffy, Camb0
Paul & Virginie. Un exotisme enchanteur0
The Other Side of Abortion: The Doctor-Writer in Martin Winckler’s La Vacation (1989)0
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize0
La circulation des savoirs occidentaux au Sud-Vietnam postcolonial. Le cas de la Faculté des Lettres de Saigon0
Unearthing BUMIDOM: the state-organized migration of French Caribbeans to mainland France (1963-1982) as portrayed in recent audiovisual productions0
Serres’s reading of Tartuffe : hypocrisy and comic underdetermination0
Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–19390
Albert Camus et l’indépendance algérienne : un dialogue différé avec les écrivains algériens (Assia Djebar ; Kamel Daoud)0
Correspondance croisée: 1869 1873: Maurice Bouchor, Félix Bourget, Paul Bourget, Georges Hérelle and Adrien Juvigny0
The weight of the world0
Barthes et le cinéma-vérité dans le film « La Lutte »0
Socialism and the experience of time: idealism and the present in Modern France0
The deluge: France’s 2024 legislative elections0
France0
Perspectives on culture and politics in the French Antilles0
Vers l’égalité, ou au-delà. Essai sur l’aube du socialisme0
Curieuses histoires. Noms propres devenus communs. De Marcel à Poubelle, l’histoire de ces hommes dont le nom est entré dans la langue française0
Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors , by Todd W. Reeser, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020
The birth of solidarity: the history of the French welfare state0
The Stora Report0
Le Personnel est politique: Médias, esthétique, et politique de l’autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, et Nelly Arcan0
L’Arbre qui cache la forêt: on the sexualization of the term beurette, Gilles Kepel’s travel writing, and the French mission civilisatrice0
‘L’idée d’une coalition’: Derrida, Foucault, and the bumpy coalitions of ACT UP-Paris in Robin Campillo’s 120 Battements par minute (2017)0
‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous0
Paris in modern times: from the Old Régime to the present day0
Concrete flowers: a novel0
This party is political: the moving politics of the queer dancefloor in 120 BPM (2017)0
Working through maternal ambivalence: the wake-up call of Chanson douce0
Citron doux. L’Aînée0
Montmartre. A Cultural History0
Writing in the ‘alterity industry’: self-reflexivity and satire in Francophone literature0
Crafting memory: literary (Re-)creation in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards0
La conversion de Constance Debré. Négativité queer et mysticisme0
Rachid Bouchareb’s ethical cinema: Louisette and Annie, two women in the Algerian war of independence0
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 20220
Reimagining liberation: how black women transformed citizenship in the French empire0
La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma0
Autofiction: a female Francophone aesthetic of exile0
Lou Koster. Komponieren in Luxemburg0
Surviving the Second World War: resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association0
Interventions 20200
Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of ‘slow violence’ in French Guiana and New Caledonia0
Reflections on the 2022 elections in France0
Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature0
Tracing HIV/AIDS representation through science in 120 BPM0
When the revolution did not look like you thought it would: the Yellow Vest Movement through radical-left activists’ imaginaries0
Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon0
« Rien qui change la vie » : l’identité lesbienne et l’indifférence dans Play boy de Constance Debré0
Paris isn’t dead yet: surviving gentrification in the city of light0
Tragedy and Nation in the Age of Napoleon0
Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept0
I suffer, therefore i am: engaging with empathy in contemporary French women’s writing0
Le Piège africain de Macron0
Réinscrire la convivialité: connectivités queer du culinaire chez Abdellah Taïa0
Theorizing HIV in the French context: perspectives from queer and transgender theory0
Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life , by Eric Robertson, London, Reaktion, 2022, 328 pp., £25.00 (Hardback), ISBN 97817891452050
Performing the pied-noir family: constructing narratives of settler memory and identity in literature and on-screen0
Clémentine ou la contraception : reproductive health in a 1970s bande dessinée0
‘Avec Vous?’ Islamophobia and the Macron presidency0
À la recherche de l’homme nouveau – Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911–19370
Bottom-up democracy, blame and a republican monarch among the ‘déclassés’0
France0
Feminism’s empire0
Beyond ‘la petite mort’ – sex and death in 120 BPM0
WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-190
Zwischen Verklärung und Verführung: Die Frau in der französischen Plakatkunst des späten 19. Jahrhunderts0
Jean-François Vilar: theatres of crime0
La mémoire des conflits dans la fiction française contemporaine0
Abortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond0
Monet, Tchaikovsky, Zola and the world they made0
Constance Debré et l’a-maternité : habiter un corps impossible0
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan a political biography0
From the spectacle to the striptease: Beigbeder, Houellebecq and media ambivalence0
Fishes with funny French names, the French restaurant in London from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century0
Fictions of race in contemporary French literature: French writers, White writing0
The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations0
De l’individuel au collectif : la quête de l’identité nationale dans Le Dépaysement de Jean-Christophe Bailly0
Doubly disenfranchised: the experience of paternal grief following medical termination in Jérémie Szpirglas’ Pater dolorosa0
The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Algerian War0
La grande illusion; journal secret du Brexit0
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel0
Chocolate and the French novel: modernity, language, nature0
Colouring the claim: visual code and national allegiance in 120 Battements par minute (Robin Campillo, 2017)0
Developments in French Politics 60
La loi contre le « séparatisme » : mort et résurrection d’une « justice d’exception »0
Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape0
The private and political heritage of the Algerian War among French youth0
Revolutionary thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-18850
Françaises, féministes et musulmanes : l’identité impossible ?0
Beyond Return: genre and cultural politics in contemporary French fiction0
Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and breaking the ‘glass ceiling’? The 2022 French presidential and parliamentary elections0
Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France0
How the French learned to vote. A history of electoral practice in France0
Zemmour contre l’histoire0
Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan0
Entre fantasme et réalité: le phénomène de ‘l’exception radieuse’, ou le bonheur selon Houellebecq0
Robin Campillo’s120 BPM(2017) and contemporary France: assembling interdisciplinary perspectives0
An interview with Frédéric Lordon: on communism, agency, Spinoza, and responsibility0
‘How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory’0
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: peace without reconciliation0
Le Canada et l’impressionnisme. Nouveaux horizons 1880-19300
L’Histoire dans la fiction : de l’anarchive à l’archive0
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible: a genealogy of radical critique in twenty-first-century France0
La Société malade0
Fellow travellers: Communist trade unionism and industrial relations on the French railways, 1914–19390
Les normes de prononciation du français. Une étude perceptive panfrancophone0
Mind the Ghost: thinking memory and the untimely through contemporary fiction in French0
Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice , by Olga Smith, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven 0
Si peu que rien : topophilie et topophobie de la désindustrialisation dans les écrits de Gilles Ortlieb0
French populism and discourses on secularism0
Making space for the dead: catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780–18300
Daily life inUn Roman russeandL’Origine de la violence0
Terror. The French Revolution and its Demons0
Made in France: societal structures and political work Made in France: societal structures and political work , by A. Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020
Avortement et sororité chez Diwan, Haroun et Sciamma0
Derrida and the legacy of psychoanalysis0
A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism0
The revolting French, 1787–18890
Editorial: Hopes and Fears in Times of Ecological Crisis across the francosphère0
The Marais: The story of a quartier0
‘L’esprit de défense’: separatism, counterinsurgency and the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France0
Resistance and collaboration in Hitler’s empire0
Between ‘transmission’ and usurpation: (far-)right remapping of European literature0
Les Quarante-huitards et les autres. Dictionnaire des diregants de 18480
Introduction: decolonizing French food0
France0
Sexuality, iconography, and fiction in French: queering the martyr0
Confronting the politics of denial0
To Love is to Act: ‘Les Misérables’ and Victor Hugo’s vision for leading lives of conscience0
L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels0
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia0
Récital 19610
Slave revolt on screen, the Haitian revolution in film and video games0
Die Malerin Hélène de Beauvoir0
Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French0
Féminité hybride, féminité dansée : performances de genres et oralité dans Bande de Filles et Divines0
Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies0
Author’s response to reviews0
Le Grand Débat: the return of the return engagement0
Africa’s last colonial currency: the CFA Franc story0
Reading drama in eighteenth-century France0
Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–19400
Living as writing as living: queer praxis in Constance Debré’s autofictions0
For a feminist reading of Julia Ducournau’s Grave0
Signé Michel Serres : the fine print of The Natural Contract0
The Caribbean in translation: remapping thresholds of dislocation0
Wither the French left?0
L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir: une histoire de la Françafrique0
Paris and the parasite: noise, health, and politics in the media city Paris and the parasite: noise, health, and politics in the media city , by Macs Smith, Cambridge, M0
Lire Patrick Modiano0
Représenter Hitler en première de couverture d’un texte de fiction: enjeux et contraintes paratextuelles, historiques et éthiques0
From menstruation to the menopause: the female fertility cycle in contemporary women’s writing in French0
Disalienation. Politics, philosophy and radical psychiatry in postwar France0
French London: a blended ethnography of a migrant city0
Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence0
A history of fascism in France: from the First World War to the National Front0
Paris in the dark: Going to the movies in the city of light, 1930-19500
Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme0
Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-19600
Civilian-led counterterrorism and the carceral state in contemporary French film0
Une relation de vie ou de mort0
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France0
Souvenirs0
Retroactivism and futurity in120 BPMandThéo et Hugo0
Going beyond the guerre des mémoires in theatrical representations of the Algerian War0
Pedagogy of the philosophy dissertation in France: paths to freedom, or thèse-antithèse-foutaise?0
The impact of gender on votes for the populist radical rights: Marine Le Pen vs. Eric Zemmour0
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