Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Questioning Identity -- I: The Nation Exposed between the Wars -- 1 Peasants in Paris: Representations of Rural France in the 1937 International Exposition -- 2 Colonialism Exposed: Miss France d'Outre-mer, 1937 -- 3 Céline on the 1937 Paris Exposition Universelle as Jewish Conspiracy -- II: Colonial Projections -- 4 Pagnol and the Paradoxes of Frenchness -- 5 Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: The Civilizing Mission in L'Atlantide -- III: Screening Vichy -- 6 Collaboration and Context: Lacombe Lucien, the Mode Rétro, and the Vichy Syndrome -- 7 Family Fictions and Reproductive Realities in Vichy France: Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de femmes -- 8 L'Histoire ressuscitée: Jewishness and Scapegoating in Julien Duvivier's Panique -- IV: Memory as Malaise and Subversion -- 9 Truffaut's Adèle in the New World: Autobiography as Subversion of History -- 10 "Une Certaine Idée de la France": The Algeria Syndrome and Struggles over "French" Identity -- 11 La Plus Grande France: French Cultural Identity and Nation Building under Mitterrand -- 12 The Coluche Effect -- Afterword Identity: Never More -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.