Description
Book SynopsisFrench 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
Trade Review...there is much here to attract and hold the reader’s attention.The editors and authors are to be congratulated for the depth of critical expertise and the clarity of exposition that they bring to their coverage of both the topic as a whole and their particular areas of specialist knowledge. The book thus represents a significant addition to research on popular culture in
advanced societies and as such will be of interest to scholars outside the confines of French Studies.
"All in all, this volume is an excellent addition to our thinking about the ways in which popular culture in France has been conceptualized and materialized."
(Hugh Dauncey; French Studies: 2014)
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
