Modern & Contemporary France

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language7
The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited)5
L’institution des revues dans le champ littéraire vietnamien francophone à l’époque coloniale4
Empire and catastrophe: decolonization and environmental disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 19544
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan. A political biography3
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan a political biography3
French military masculinities and the birth ofcinéma colonial: triangulating queer desire in Jacques Feyder’sL’Atlantide(1921)3
Les Quarante-huitards et les autres. Dictionnaire des diregants de 18483
The politics of imperial memory in France, 1850–19003
Going beyond the guerre des mémoires in theatrical representations of the Algerian War2
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 politics2
Revolutionary thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-18852
Frontier poetry: new adventures in contemporary French horror cinema2
France2
De l’individuel au collectif : la quête de l’identité nationale dans Le Dépaysement de Jean-Christophe Bailly1
The Other Side of Abortion: The Doctor-Writer in Martin Winckler’s La Vacation (1989)1
From menstruation to the menopause: the female fertility cycle in contemporary women’s writing in French1
Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors , by Todd W. Reeser, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021
Derrida and the legacy of psychoanalysis1
Performing the pied-noir family: constructing narratives of settler memory and identity in literature and on-screen1
Le Piège africain de Macron1
Resistance and collaboration in Hitler’s empire1
French London: a blended ethnography of a migrant city1
Crafting memory: literary (Re-)creation in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards1
Une relation de vie ou de mort1
Si peu que rien : topophilie et topophobie de la désindustrialisation dans les écrits de Gilles Ortlieb1
Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–19391
L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir: une histoire de la Françafrique1
Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon1
Serres’ textual parasitism and his search for a material language1
Developments in French Politics 61
Sexuality, iconography, and fiction in French: queering the martyr1
Inventing the natural contract1
Today sardines are not for sale1
« Rien qui change la vie » : l’identité lesbienne et l’indifférence dans Play boy de Constance Debré1
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature1
The deluge: France’s 2024 legislative elections1
Signé Michel Serres : the fine print of The Natural Contract1
Autofiction: a female Francophone aesthetic of exile1
La Société malade1
‘L’esprit de défense’: separatism, counterinsurgency and the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France0
Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape0
Slave revolt on screen, the Haitian revolution in film and video games0
Invisible chain: breaking the taboo of abortion in Jeanne Caruchet’s L’Ensemencée (1904), Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Audrey Diw0
Mind the Ghost: thinking memory and the untimely through contemporary fiction in French0
‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous0
Tracing HIV/AIDS representation through science in 120 BPM0
Michel Serres’s Le parasite : the noise of the world at work0
Stendhal0
Paris in the dark: Going to the movies in the city of light, 1930-19500
Writing in the ‘alterity industry’: self-reflexivity and satire in Francophone literature0
Le Canada et l’impressionnisme. Nouveaux horizons 1880-19300
France’s party system in 20220
Soukaz in space: visuality, protest and appropriation in the films of Lionel Soukaz0
Barthes et le cinéma-vérité dans le film « La Lutte »0
Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France0
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible: a genealogy of radical critique in twenty-first-century France0
The birth of solidarity: the history of the French welfare state0
Représenter Hitler en première de couverture d’un texte de fiction: enjeux et contraintes paratextuelles, historiques et éthiques0
Between ‘transmission’ and usurpation: (far-)right remapping of European literature0
Africa’s last colonial currency: the CFA Franc story0
From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’0
Constance Debré et l’a-maternité : habiter un corps impossible0
Les normes de prononciation du français. Une étude perceptive panfrancophone0
Die Malerin Hélène de Beauvoir0
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
Jeux de mots et créativité. Langue(s), discours et littérature0
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia0
Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–20170
Chocolate and the French novel: modernity, language, nature0
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: peace without reconciliation0
The Routledge handbook of French politics and culture0
Lesbian decadence: representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle France0
Author’s response to reviews0
D’un roman plus que le nom: Édouard Louis’s Histoire de la violence, a reflexive, gay novel0
Fictions of race in contemporary French literature: French writers, White writing0
Regional dress between tradition and modernity0
Ni d’ici ni d’ailleurs : l’impossible appartenance de l’immigré maghrébin chez Mouloud Feraoun et Ben Jelloun0
From the spectacle to the striptease: Beigbeder, Houellebecq and media ambivalence0
Drawing (in) the feminine: bande dessinée and women0
Queer, plastic residues: biological mutability and queer resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the work of Catherine Malabou0
‘He didn’t really talk about it’: the (re)construction and transmission of a Free French past0
Correspondance croisée: 1869 1873: Maurice Bouchor, Félix Bourget, Paul Bourget, Georges Hérelle and Adrien Juvigny0
Avortement et sororité chez Diwan, Haroun et Sciamma0
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 Paris0
Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan0
French populism and discourses on secularism0
How the French learned to vote. A history of electoral practice in France0
Françaises, féministes et musulmanes : l’identité impossible ?0
Necrofiction and the politics of literary memory0
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
Herminie and Fanny Pereire, elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France0
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro: instantanés0
Féminité hybride, féminité dansée : performances de genres et oralité dans Bande de Filles et Divines0
The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Algerian War0
Commissioning memorial reconciliation: the Stora Report and Algeria’s Ottoman cannon in France0
Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France , by Sean Quinlan, Ithaca, Co0
Abortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond0
À la recherche de l’homme nouveau – Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911–19370
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 20220
Tragedy and Nation in the Age of Napoleon0
Albert Camus et l’indépendance algérienne : un dialogue différé avec les écrivains algériens (Assia Djebar ; Kamel Daoud)0
This party is political: the moving politics of the queer dancefloor in 120 BPM (2017)0
Confronting the politics of denial0
Beyond Return: genre and cultural politics in contemporary French fiction0
The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations0
Zemmour contre l’histoire0
Socialism and the experience of time: idealism and the present in Modern France0
Monet, Tchaikovsky, Zola and the world they made0
L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels0
Paris isn’t dead yet: surviving gentrification in the city of light0
For a feminist reading of Julia Ducournau’s Grave0
Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics , by Elizabeth Benjamin, Bristol, Peter Lan0
Louis-René des Forêts and inner autobiography0
Fishes with funny French names, the French restaurant in London from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century0
La grande illusion; journal secret du Brexit0
Terror. The French Revolution and its Demons0
Il était une fois… le Hirak au pays natal0
Civilian-led counterterrorism and the carceral state in contemporary French film0
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France0
The Marais: The story of a quartier0
La Nation en récit0
Le Personnel est politique: Médias, esthétique, et politique de l’autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, et Nelly Arcan0
Doubly disenfranchised: the experience of paternal grief following medical termination in Jérémie Szpirglas’ Pater dolorosa0
Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence0
The fuzzy logics of parasitism: catachresis and prognosis in Michel Serres0
Retroactivism and futurity in120 BPMandThéo et Hugo0
Souvenirs0
Bottom-up democracy, blame and a republican monarch among the ‘déclassés’0
Lire Patrick Modiano0
Serres’s reading of Tartuffe : hypocrisy and comic underdetermination0
La circulation des savoirs occidentaux au Sud-Vietnam postcolonial. Le cas de la Faculté des Lettres de Saigon0
La conversion de Constance Debré. Négativité queer et mysticisme0
I suffer, therefore i am: engaging with empathy in contemporary French women’s writing0
France0
Robin Campillo’s120 BPM(2017) and contemporary France: assembling interdisciplinary perspectives0
Lou Koster. Komponieren in Luxemburg0
The memory of colonialism in Britain and France: the sins of silence0
Twenty-first-century symbolism, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé0
Zwischen Verklärung und Verführung: Die Frau in der französischen Plakatkunst des späten 19. Jahrhunderts0
Urban bridges, global capitals: trans-Mediterranean Francosphères0
WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-190
Entre fantasme et réalité: le phénomène de ‘l’exception radieuse’, ou le bonheur selon Houellebecq0
The Stora Report0
Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition0
« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique0
France, you love it but leave it: the silent flight of French Muslims0
Feminism’s empire0
Concrete flowers: a novel0
Making space for the dead: catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780–18300
Looking back on a nation’s struggle: women’s reflections on the Algerian War of liberation0
The weight of the world0
Citron doux. L’Aînée0
Perspectives on culture and politics in the French Antilles0
Surviving the Second World War: resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association0
Réinscrire la convivialité: connectivités queer du culinaire chez Abdellah Taïa0
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty0
Women moralists in early modern France0
Precarity as a mode of being-in-the-world in Michel Houellebecq’s Possibilité d’une Île0
Pedagogy of the philosophy dissertation in France: paths to freedom, or thèse-antithèse-foutaise?0
La mémoire des conflits dans la fiction française contemporaine0
Princesses, Tomboy s and ‘gender theory’: film, family and school as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars of twenty-first-century France0
Working through maternal ambivalence: the wake-up call of Chanson douce0
Intermedial dialogues: the French new wave and the other arts0
Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies0
Jean-François Vilar: theatres of crime0
Récital 19610
Reflections on the 2022 elections in France0
Colouring the claim: visual code and national allegiance in 120 Battements par minute (Robin Campillo, 2017)0
Introduction: decolonizing French food0
Paul & Virginie. Un exotisme enchanteur0
Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world0
Disalienation. Politics, philosophy and radical psychiatry in postwar France0
Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-19600
The revolting French, 1787–18890
Theorizing HIV in the French context: perspectives from queer and transgender theory0
‘House is not universal. House is hyper-specific’: dance music sequences and affect in 120 BPM and Eden0
Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of ‘slow violence’ in French Guiana and New Caledonia0
La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma0
Clémentine ou la contraception : reproductive health in a 1970s bande dessinée0
Les nouvelles histoires : dialoguer avec les sujets et les lieux. Entretien avec Pascal Convert0
Digging holes, excavating the present, mining the future: extractivism, time, and memory in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s and Sammy Baloji’s works0
Michel Serres and the parasitic unmaking of modernity0
Making sense of the ordinary through discursive practices: a French ‘socio-writing’ turn?0
Reimagining liberation: how black women transformed citizenship in the French empire0
Unearthing BUMIDOM: the state-organized migration of French Caribbeans to mainland France (1963-1982) as portrayed in recent audiovisual productions0
Postcolonial realms of memory: sites and symbols in modern France0
The reclining nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin0
Empires of the mind: the colonial past and the politics of the present0
Beyond ‘la petite mort’ – sex and death in 120 BPM0
Vers l’égalité, ou au-delà. Essai sur l’aube du socialisme0
L’Histoire dans la fiction : de l’anarchive à l’archive0
The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics , by Helena Duffy, Camb0
‘Avec Vous?’ Islamophobia and the Macron presidency0
Between neo-liberalism and the nation: France’s political landscape in 20220
Curieuses histoires. Noms propres devenus communs. De Marcel à Poubelle, l’histoire de ces hommes dont le nom est entré dans la langue française0
Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature0
What Ails France0
Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and breaking the ‘glass ceiling’? The 2022 French presidential and parliamentary elections0
‘Mais qui va garder les enfants?' Postfeminist retraditionalism in Sylvie Testud’sLa Vie d’une autre(2012)0
Fellow travellers: Communist trade unionism and industrial relations on the French railways, 1914–19390
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize0
‘Si je t’étranglais ?’ De la masculinité blessée au fantasme de féminicide chez Roland Dorgelès0
Un sang d’encre : Du corps en littérature contemporaine0
On ne parle pas franglais. La langue française face à l’anglais0
Les Manufactures de nos rêves: les studios de cinéma français des années 19300
Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French0
La loi contre le « séparatisme » : mort et résurrection d’une « justice d’exception »0
Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century0
Paris in modern times: from the Old Régime to the present day0
Histoire, bande dessinée et positionnement éthique : présence et fonction narrative du personnage de Pétain dans La Balade nationale (2017) de Sylvain Venayre et Etienne0
France0
Turkish–French relations: history, present and the future0
Filiations abortives : l’avortement dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain0
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 680
Making waves: French feminisms and their legacies 1975-20150
When the revolution did not look like you thought it would: the Yellow Vest Movement through radical-left activists’ imaginaries0
France0
Reading drama in eighteenth-century France0
The private and political heritage of the Algerian War among French youth0
Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour entre roman et politique : Parcours croisé0
Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–19400
Rachid Bouchareb’s ethical cinema: Louisette and Annie, two women in the Algerian war of independence0
Made in France: societal structures and political work Made in France: societal structures and political work , by A. Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020
‘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
Courtesan and Countess: The lost and found memoirs of the French Consul’s wife0
Defying normativity in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept0
To Love is to Act: ‘Les Misérables’ and Victor Hugo’s vision for leading lives of conscience0
Wither the French left?0
Un-layering Greece: imagined classical heritages in French nationalist travel writing0
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789–20220
A history of fascism in France: from the First World War to the National Front0
L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency0
A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism0
Interventions 20200
Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice , by Olga Smith, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven 0
Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme0
The impact of gender on votes for the populist radical rights: Marine Le Pen vs. Eric Zemmour0
Le Grand Débat: the return of the return engagement0
An interview with Frédéric Lordon: on communism, agency, Spinoza, and responsibility0
France’s wars in Chad: military intervention and decolonization in Africa0
The Caribbean in translation: remapping thresholds of dislocation0
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel0
‘How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory’0
Living as writing as living: queer praxis in Constance Debré’s autofictions0
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