Jean-Pierre Melville : an American in Paris / by Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Jean-Pierre Melville, 'An American in Paris'1. From Film Lover to Film-maker: The Life and Career of Jean-Pierre Melville2. …”
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Writing the lost generation : expatriate autobiography and American modernism / by Monk, Craig, 1969-

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This is the Beat Generation : New York, San Francisco, Paris / by Campbell, James, 1951-

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The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 / by Miles, Barry, 1943-

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The Cambridge companion to Gershwin /

Table of Contents: “…Exploring new worlds : An American in Paris, Cuban overture and Porgy and Bess /…”

The fictions of Arthur Cravan : poetry, boxing and revolution / by Jones, Dafydd W.

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan; Enter Colossus; To be an American in Paris; 'All words are lies': Maintenant, April 1912-July 1913; 'Life has no solution': Maintenant, November 1913-April 1915; The vision of struggling movement: Barcelona 1916; 'Pure affect': New York 1917; Being as being, and nothing more; Conclusion; Index…”
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Frères ennemis : the French in American literature, Americans in French literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”

Frères ennemis : the French in American literature, Americans in French literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”
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A little solitaire : John Frankenheimer and American film /

Table of Contents: “…; The Train; Action and Abstraction in Ronin; Politics; Late Frankenheimer/Political Frankenheimer; John Frankenheimer's"War on Terror"; The Burning Season; Pictures and Prizes; Families; Crashing In; Walking the Linewith the Fille Fatale; Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood; Ashes, Ashes; Secrets; An American in Paris; Shot from the Sky; Frankenheimer and theScience Fiction/Horror Film; The Fixer.…”
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John Ashbery and American poetry / by Herd, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: John Ashbery's sense of occasion -- Two scenes: the early poetry and its backgrounds -- The art of life: collaboration and the New York School -- An American in Paris: The Tennis Court Oath and the poetics of exile -- Forms of action: experiment and declaration in Rivers and Mountains and The Double Dream of Spring -- From poetry to prose: the sceptical tradition of Three Poems -- John Ashbery in conversation: the communicative value of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Houseboat Days -- John Ashbery and friends: the poet and his communities in Shadow Train and A Wave -- 'And later, after the twister': the sense of an ending in recent Ashbery.…”
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Morality, identity and narrative in the fiction of Richard Ford / by Duffy, Brian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; chapter 1 the sportswriter i: fleeing the past; chapter 2 the sportswriter ii: impermanence and the present; chapter 3 independence day i: from unity to fragmentation; chapter 4 independence day ii: laissez-faire and isolation; chapter 5 the lay of the land i: america divided; chapter 6 the lay of the land ii: the return of the past; chapter 7 "the womanizer" identity and the good; chapter 8 "occidentals" americans in paris; chapter 9 amultitude of sins acts and consequences; chapter 10 "calling" the narrative cure; chapter 11 "reunion" time and narrative.…”
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