Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture /

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This book is about what 'popular culture' means in France, and how the term's shifting meanings have been negotiated and contested. It offers an informed study of the way that popular culture is lived, imagined, fought over and negotiated in modern and contemporary France. It covers a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Holmes, Diana, 1949-, Looseley, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Since 1900
National characteristics, French.
Popular culture > France.
Popular culture > France > 20th century.
Popular culture > France > 21st century.
Culture populaire > France.
Culture populaire > France > 20e siècle.
Culture populaire > France > 21e siècle.
Français.
Civilization
Economic history
Manners and customs
National characteristics, French
Politics and government
Popular culture
Social conditions
France > Social life and customs.
France > Social conditions.
France > Civilization > 1945-
France > Economic conditions.
France > Politics and government.
France > Mœurs et coutumes.
France > Conditions sociales.
France > Civilisation > 1945-
France > Conditions économiques.
France > Politique et gouvernement.
France
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Imagining the popular: highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow
  • Politics and pleasure: inventing popular culture in contemporary France
  • Authenticity and appropriation: a discursive history of French popular music
  • The mimetic prejudice: the popular novel in France
  • Why popular films are popular: identification, imitation and critical mortification
  • French television: negotiating the national popular
  • Social and linguistic change in French: does popular culture mean popular language?

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