France
By medium: French art - French cinema - French culture - French erotica - French exploitation - French literature - French music - French philosophy
Eiffel Tower (1889) - Gustave Eiffel
Favourite people: Georges Bataille - Charles Baudelaire - Catherine Breillat - Céline - Gilles Deleuze - Marquis de Sade - Marcel Duchamp - Serge Gainsbourg - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Michel Houellebecq - Eric Losfeld - Georges Pichard - Pauline Réage - Jacques Tati
Related: Barbarella - cabaret - Cinéma vérité - Cahiers du Cinéma - Cinémathèque - Emmanuelle - Fascination (magazine) - le fantastique - Fantômas - femme fatal - Moulin Rouge - film noir - L'Histoire d'O - May 1968 - négritude - Midi Minuit Fantastique - Nouvelle Vague - noir - Obelisk Press - Olympia Press - Paris - Radio Nova - Salon des Réfusés - Série Noire - Le Sexe Qui Parle - fin de siècle - French Revolution - vaudeville
People: A - Guillaume Apollinaire - B - Gaston Bachelard - Brigitte Bardot - Roland Barthes - Georges Bataille - André Bazin - Sylvia Beach - José Bénazéraf - Jean de Berg - Henri Bergson - Gilles Berquet - Alfred Binet - Michel Blanc - Bertrand Blier - François Boucher - Charles Baudelaire - Jean Baudrillard - Pierre Bourdieu - Guy Bourdin - Jean-Pierre Bouyxou - Robert Bresson - André Breton - Restif de la Bretonne - Catherine Breillat - Charles De Brosses - C - Rupert Carabin - Pierre Cardin - Paul Chabas - Claude Chabrol - Manu Chao - Céline - Jean Cocteau - Gustave Courbet - André Courrèges - D - Dalida - Anatole Dauman - Honoré Daumier - Guy Debord - Régis Debray - Claude Debussy - Gilles Deleuze - Louis Delluc - Gerard Depardieu - Gilles de Rais - Jacques Derrida - René Descartes - Robert Desnos - Achille Devéria - Denis Diderot - Gustave Doré - Marcel Duchamp - Germaine Dulac - E - Paul Eluard - Jean Epstein - F - Louis Feuillade - Gustave Flaubert - Michel Foucault - Georges Franju - Emmanuel Frémiet - G - Abel Gance - Serge Gainsbourg - Théophile Gautier - Jean Léon Gérome - Jean Giraud - Maurice Girodias - Jean-Luc Godard - Alain Goraguer - Urbain Grandier - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Félix Guattari - H - Michel Houellebecq - Joris Karl Huysmans - I - Ingres - Luce Irigaray - J - Just Jaeckin - Alfred Jarry - K - François Kevorkian - Yves Klein - Pierre Klossowski - Julia Kristeva - Ado Kyrou - L - Jacques Lacan - Henri Langlois - René Laloux - Lautréamont - Toulouse-Lautrec - Patrice Leconte - Henri Lefèbvre - Gaston Leroux - Eric Losfeld - Lyotard - M - Louis Malle - André Pieyre de Mandiargues - Édouard Manet - Georges Méliès - Henri Michaux - Octave Mirbeau - Pierre Molinier - N - Nerciat - Gilles Néret - Gaspar Noé - O - Orlan - François Ozon - P - Pauvert - Francis Picabia - Richard Pinhas - Georges Pichard - Max Pécas - R - Paco Rabanne - Pauline Réage - Jean Renoir - Alain Resnais - Janine Reynaud - Bettina Rheims - Jacques Rivette - Jean Rollin - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - S - Pierre Schaeffer - Barbet Schroeder - Marquis de Sade - Jean-Paul Sartre - Delphine Seyrig - Georges Simenon - Romain Slocombe - Stendhal - T - Clovis Trouille - Jacques Tardi - Jacques Tati - François Truffaut - V - Roger Vadim - Paul Valéry - Edgar Varèse - Jules Verne - Boris Vian - Paul Virilio - W - Georges Wolinski - Z - Régine Zylberberg -
The culture of France [...]
The culture of France is diverse, reflecting regional differences as well as the influence of recent immigration. France has played an important role for centuries as a cultural center, with Paris as a world center of high culture. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_France [May 2005]
Modern art [...]
Modern art was introduced to America during World War I when a number of the artists in the Montmartre and Montparnasse Quarters of Paris, France fled the War. Francis Picabia (1879–1953), was responsible for bringing Modern Art to New York City. It was only after World War II, though, that the USA became the focal point of new artistic movements. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art [Aug 2004]Jazz in France
Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Paris, France began June 14, 1940. Until the plug was pulled, Paris nightclubs had been some of the premier hosts of the American Jazz movement. Black American jazz musicians, artists and dancers had discovered Paris after the Harlem Renaissance through the tales of returning black servicemen from WWI. These artists were grateful to the French for the opportunity, respect and pay equity that would not come to America until over 40 years later.
The French, for their part, were obsessed with all things Negro due to the Primitivism movement in art and the spirit of "Negritude". Negritude was a manifesto of Black intellectual expatriates that stood for self-determination and a total rejection of all Western influence, the reclamation of what was truly their own. New forms of art were finally able to bloom under this broad acceptance and generous patronage. Pre-WW2 Paris served as a welcome home to jazz luminaries Arthur Briggs, Dexter Gordon, Benny Carter and dancer Josephine Baker (nicknamed "Le Jazz Hot") among others. http://www.sistersf.com/articles/discoPart1.php [Aug 2005]
Music of France
Histoire De Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Jane Birkin on the cover of the seven inch to "Je t'aime... Moi non plus" (1969)
Related: cabaret - French house music - Radio Nova - vaudeville
People: Brigitte Bardot - Manu Chao - Dalida - Serge Gainsbourg - François Kevorkian -
Shake Sauvage: French Soundtracks, 1968-1973 (2000) - Various Artists
Shake Sauvage: French Soundtracks, 1968-1973 (2000) - Various Artists [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Take for example the Deep Note series, audio CDs that compile cuts from classic 1970s porn films. They do their best to ensure plenty of wa-wa guitars, analog synthesizer music, random bits of dialogue and yes -- the sexy saxophones. Inside Deep Note: Music of 1970s Adult Cinema is the newest in the series, further fetishizing the genre with more cheeseball grooviness and includes a 16-page booklet and an eight-page full color digipack. People who love this music might also enjoy 1970s softcore/horror Spanish director Jess Franco's soundtracks, such as the music to his cult lesbian vampire film Vampyros Lesbos. In fact, there were oodles of softcore and erotic horror films made in Spain, France and Italy in the 1960s and '70s that were tracked with a lot of very cool music -- Chet Baker worked with Jess Franco on a few films -- and music collections from these classics are usually hidden gems that suggest influences such as Bossa Nova, nouveau lounge and campy funk. Some favorites from my collection include the Beat al Cinecitta series, the Easy Tempo series (through #6) and Shake Sauvage. --http://www.tinynibbles.com/pornmusic1.html [Aug 2005]
French cinema
Et Dieu Créa la Femme - (1956) Roger Vadim [amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Related: Cinéma vérité - Cahiers du Cinéma - Cinémathèque - film noir - Midi Minuit Fantastique - Nouvelle Vague -
Titles: Barbarella - Emmanuelle - Le Sexe Qui Parle - Fantômas - And God Created Woman - L'Histoire d'O - Irréversible - Les Valseuses
People: Brigitte Bardot - André Bazin - José Bénazéraf - Michel Blanc - Bertrand Blier - Jean-Pierre Bouyxou - Robert Bresson - Catherine Breillat - Claude Chabrol - Jean Cocteau - Anatole Dauman - Guy Debord - Louis Delluc - Gerard Depardieu - Robert Desnos - Marcel Duchamp - Germaine Dulac - Jean Epstein - Louis Feuillade - Georges Franju - Abel Gance - Serge Gainsbourg - Jean-Luc Godard - Alain Goraguer - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Just Jaeckin - Ado Kyrou - Henri Langlois - René Laloux - Patrice Leconte - Louis Malle - Georges Méliès - Claude Mulot - Gaspar Noé - François Ozon - Max Pécas - Jean Renoir - Alain Resnais - Janine Reynaud Jacques Rivette - Jean Rollin - Barbet Schroeder - Delphine Seyrig - Jacques Tati - François Truffaut - Roger Vadim -