Imagining The Popular In Contemporary French Culture

Author : Diana Holmes,David Looseley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0719078164

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Imagining the Popular in Contemporary French Culture by Diana Holmes,David Looseley Pdf

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.

Author : Diana Holmes,David Looseley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781526130266

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Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture by Diana Holmes,David Looseley Pdf

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.

Author : Fabienne Darling-Wolf
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472052431

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Imagining the Global by Fabienne Darling-Wolf Pdf

A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global

Author : G. Raymond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137025326

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The Sarkozy Presidency by G. Raymond Pdf

Sarkozy came to power promising radical political and social change while simultaneously developing a presidential persona that melded the public and the personal under the glare of media attention, unparalleled in the French Fifth Republic. This volume provides a detailed analysis of the fit between his ambitions and the outcomes of his presidency

Author : Charlie Michael
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474424240

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French Blockbusters by Charlie Michael Pdf

The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular culture. While the Gallic `cultural exception' remains a forceful current to this day, this book shows how the onslaught of Hollywood mega-franchises and new media platforms since the 1980s has also provoked an overtly commercialised response from French producers eager to redefine the stakes and scope of their own traditions. Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implications, historical impact and cultural consequences of recent popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make - or to see - a `French' film today. From English-language action vehicles like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson, 2017) to revisionist historical films like Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2011) and crowd-pleasing comedies like Intouchables (Toledano & Nakache, 2011), the variously filiated `local blockbusters' from contemporary France brim with the seeds of cultural contradiction, but also with the energy of a forceful counter-history

Author : Isabelle Marc,Stuart Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317016069

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The Singer-Songwriter in Europe by Isabelle Marc,Stuart Green Pdf

The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the singer-songwriter is significant and much-debated for a variety of reasons. Many such musicians possess large and zealous followings, their output often esteemed politically and usually held up as the nearest popular music gets to high art, such facets often yielding sizeable economic benefits. Yet this figure, per se, has been the object of scant critical discussion, with individual practitioners celebrated for their isolated achievements instead. In response to this lack of critical knowledge, this volume identifies and interrogates the musical, linguistic, social and ideological elements that configure the singer-songwriter and its various equivalents in Europe, such as the French auteur-compositeur-interprète and the Italian cantautore, since the late 1940s. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of this figure in the post-war period, how and why its contours have changed over time and space subsequently, cross-cultural influences, and the transformative agency of this figure as regards party and identity politics in lyrics and music, often by means of individual case studies. The book's polycentric approach endeavours to redress the hitherto Anglophone bias in scholarship on the singer-songwriter in the English-speaking world, drawing on the knowledge of scholars from across Europe and from a variety of academic disciplines, including modern language studies, musicology, sociology, literary studies and history.

Author : Alex Hughes,Keith Reader
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0415263549

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture by Alex Hughes,Keith Reader Pdf

Offers approximately seven hundred entries, including coverage of such contemporary issues as decolonization, green politics, youth culture, and advertising.

Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034870918

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The Politics of Fun by David Looseley Pdf

This study considers contemporary policies for the arts in France and the cultural and political issues they have raised. The author concentrates mainly on the Mitterrand years and the various influences which marked them.

Author : I. Sykes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137455352

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Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France by I. Sykes Pdf

This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting.

Author : Ceri Crossley,Ian Small
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B4956456

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Studies in Anglo-French Cultural Relations by Ceri Crossley,Ian Small Pdf

Author : Sabine Wilke
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004297876

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German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination by Sabine Wilke Pdf

This book tells the story of the rise of the modern German environmental imagination with particular emphasis on its narrative and visual components.

Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026596812

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Popular Music in Contemporary France by David Looseley Pdf

This book investigates the innovative segmentation of the French music scene in the 1960s and the debates it has spawned. It makes sense of the complexity behind the history of French popular music and its relation to authentic cultural identity.

Author : Gill Rye,Amaleena Damlé
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783160419

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Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France by Gill Rye,Amaleena Damlé Pdf

Women’s Writing in Twenty-First Century France is a collection of critical essays on recent women-authored literature in France. It takes stock of the themes, issues and trends in women’s writing of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and it engages critically with the work of individual authors through close textual readings. Authors covered include major prizewinners, best-selling authors, established and new writers whose work attracts scholarly attention, including those whose texts have been translated into English such as Christine Angot, Nina Bouraoui, Marie Darrieussecq as Chloé Delaume, Claudie Gallay and Anna Gavalda. Themes include translation, popular fiction, society, history, war, family relations, violence, trauma, the body, racial identity, sexual identity, feminism, life-writing and textual/aesthetic experiments.

Author : Edward Watts
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469625867

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In This Remote Country by Edward Watts Pdf

When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities. Images of these French settlers saturated nearly every American text concerned with the West. Edward Watts argues that these representations of French colonial culture played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation. In regard to land, labor, gender, family, race, and religion, American interpretations of the French frontier became a means of sorting the empire builders from those with a more moderate and contained nation in mind, says Watts. Romantic nationalists such as George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, and Lyman Beecher used the French model to justify the construction of a nascent empire. Alternatively, writers such as Margaret Fuller, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Hall presented a less aggressive vision of the nation based on the colonial French themselves. By examining how representations of the French shaped these conversations, Watts offers an alternative view of antebellum culture wars.

Author : Mary Harrod,Suzanne Leonard,Diane Negra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000404623

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Imagining "We" in the Age of "I" by Mary Harrod,Suzanne Leonard,Diane Negra Pdf

Winner, MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year, MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022 In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality, work and mobility patterns and especially technology have provoked interest in perceived threats to social bonding on a global scale. This edited collection explores the fracturing of couple culture but also its persistence. Looking at a variety of media sites—including film, television, popular print fiction, new media and new technologies—this volume’s diverse range of contributors examine how mediated scenes of intimacy proliferate, while real-life experiences are cast in a newly uncertain light. The collection thus challenges a latent but growing tendency towards perceptions of romantic decline, in a variety of cultural contexts and with attention to the impact of COVID-19. This is an accessible and timely collection suitable for scholars in gender studies, media, cultural studies and communication studies.