And the show went on : cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris / Alan Riding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riding, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--France--Paris.

World War, 1939-1945.

Popular culture.

History.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Paris (France).

Popular culture--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France)--History--1940-1944.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

xiii, 399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Summary:

Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they "saving" French culture by working? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual's duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment for artists who had committed "intelligence with the enemy"? By throwing light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma. -- Publisher Description

Contents:

Everyone on stage

Not so droll

Shall we dance?

L'Américain

Paris by night

Resistance as an idea

Maréchal, nous voilà!

Vivace, ma non troppo

A ripped canvas

Distraction on screen

Mirroring the past

Writing for the enemy

Chez Florence

"On the side of life"

The pendulum swings

Vengeance and amnesia

Surviving at a price.

Not so drole

L'américain

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Livezey fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780307268976

0307268977

OCLC:

503042137