#  Jake Cohen 

Class of 2009, Modern Europe and America

Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center

 

 

 



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**Thesis Title:** *Tout va mal*: Americanization and the Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard

**What Now:** Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center  
  
History & Literature was, for me, an invaluable education in teasing out unseen connections. My field—France & America—encourage me to seek out the novel narratives and marginalized histories that united the countries I studied. While I explored in depth the effects that revolution and industrialization had on the two nations, I focused on the 20th century and the staggering amount of transatlantic cultural exchange and conflict that transpired post-World War II. As the United States took an interest in existentialism, France adopted jazz, film, and other American exports as its own. Those topics and the strategies I used to approach them come in handy every day in my current job, where I develop new audiences for jazz by helping people appreciate and understand its history.



 

 

 





 

 

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