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Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture


Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture



von: Diana Holmes, David Looseley

129,99 €

Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 03.10.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781526130266
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 264

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This groundbreaking book is about what ‘popular culture’ means in France, and how the term’s shifting meanings have been negotiated and contested. It represents the first theoretically informed study of the way that popular culture is lived, imagined, fought over and negotiated in modern and contemporary France.

It covers a wide range of overarching concerns: the roles of state policy, the market, political ideologies, changing social contexts and new technologies in the construction of the popular. But it also provides a set of specific case studies showing how popular songs, stories, films, TV programmes and language styles have become indispensable elements of ‘culture’ in France. Deploying yet also rethinking a ‘Cultural Studies’ approach to the popular, the book therefore challenges dominant views of what French culture really means today.
French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History.

Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Diana Holmes and David Looseley
1. Politics and Pleasure: Inventing Popular Culture in Contemporary France
David Looseley
2. Authenticity and Appropriation: A Discursive History of French Popular Music
David Looseley
3. The Mimetic Prejudice: the Popular Novel in France
Diana Holmes
4. Why Popular Films are Popular : Identification, Imitation and Critical Mortification
David Platten
5. French Television: Negotiating the National Popular
Lucy Mazdon
6. Social and Linguistic Change in French: Does Popular Culture Mean Popular Language?
Nigel Armstrong
Conclusion
Diana Holmes and David Looseley
Bibliography
Index
Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds|David Looseley is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary French Culture at the University of Leeds
This groundbreaking book is about what ‘popular culture’ means in France, and how the term’s shifting meanings have been negotiated and contested. It represents the first theoretically informed study of the way that popular culture is lived, imagined, fought over and negotiated in modern and contemporary France. Chapter from an impressive line up of contributors cover the public ‘invention’ of popular culture; music; fiction; film; television and language.

This structure allows a wide range of overarching concerns to be explored: the roles of state policy, the market, political ideologies, changing social contexts and new technologies in the construction of the popular. But it also provides a set of specific case studies showing how popular songs, stories, films, TV programmes and language styles have become indispensable elements of ‘culture’ in France. Deploying yet also rethinking a ‘Cultural Studies’ approach to the popular, the book therefore challenges dominant views of what French culture really means today.

It will reach a wide, international readership in French Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, and disciplines well beyond. Its clarity of style will also make it a readable and useful resource for undergraduates and postgraduates. The book emerges from the pioneering collaborative work of the University of Leeds-based Popular Cultures Research Network, and is written by some of the leading scholars in French cultural studies.

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