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Background Reading:
Popkin, Modern France, pp. 263-284; 293-302.
Required Readings:
Roland Barthes, Mythologies (1957), selections: "Operation Margarine" and "Soap Powders and Detergents" are on-line here; "Iconography of the Abbé Pierre" is here; "Plastic" is here; and "Wine and Milk," here. The entire book is on-line here (in a difficult to read format).
Guy Debord, "Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy" (1965), edited version. If you are especially interested in Debord and his collaborators, see the Situationist International Online Archive.
Further Reading:
Claire Duchen, Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France, 1944-1968 (1994).
Robert Gildea, France since 1945 (1996)--basic textbook.
Gabrielle Hecht, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National
Identity (1998).
Richard Jobs, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War (2007).
Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: the Dilemma of Americanization (1993).
Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the
Re-ordering of French Culture (1995).
Vanessa Schwarz, It's So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (2007).
Rosemary Wakeman, Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945-1975 (1997).
Irwin Wall, The United States and the Making of Postwar France (1991).
Susan Weiner, Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945-1968 (2001).
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Marshall Plan (Library of Congress exhibition)
