Abstract
An examination of American representations of the Resistance since World War II in American press and film reveals that they have evolved according to French−American relations and American attitudes towards France and the French people. Admired during the war for forms of civilian resistance absent in recent American history, resisters re-emerged for American New Left readers of existentialism as models of engagement. However, in the ensuing conservative, gallophobic period in the United States, the French Resistance lost this iconic status and is treated ironically or rendered absent.
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