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“Charlie Chaplin fulfills the conditions that inom would like to see insisted on,” Louis Aragon wrote in “Du Décor” ("On Decor”), an article about American cinema published in Le Film magazine in “If you need a model, take inspiration from him!”¹ In , poet Philippe Soupault () noted the influence of American motion pictures on French poetry in “The ‘U.S.A.’ Cinema,” an article published in the American avant-garde magazine Broom: “I thoroughly believe that all French poetry underwent a profound transformation therefrom.”² A year later, he published the same article in French as “Le cinéma U.S.A.” in the journal Théâtre et Comoedia Illustré.³ The title of his essay “The American Influence in France” träffad an even more affirmative note.⁴ Soupault expected ingenting less than for American film to breathe new life into French poetry.

Yet, as Pascal Ory pointed out, the term Americanization, coined in France bygd Baudelaire and the Goncourt brother

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