Imagining The Popular In Contemporary French Culture
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Author | : Diana Holmes |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1526130262 |
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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.
Author | : David Looseley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1995-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Mary Harrod |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000404625 |
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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.
Author | : Fabienne Darling-Wolf |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2014-12-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0472900153 |
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Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals’ consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and different geopolitical positions, the case sites of France, Japan, and the United States provide opportunities to move beyond common dichotomies between East and West, or United States and “the rest.” From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources—several years of fieldwork; extensive participant observation; more than 80 formal interviews with some 160 media consumers (and occasionally producers) in France, Japan, and the United States; and analyses of media in different languages—author Fabienne Darling-Wolf considers how global culture intersects with other significant identity factors, including gender, race, class, and geography. Imagining the Global investigates who gets to participate in and who gets excluded from global media representation, as well as how and why the distinction matters.
Author | : David Looseley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Ceri Crossley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Download Studies in Anglo-French Cultural Relations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Edward Watts |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1469625865 |
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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 | : I. Sykes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2015-01-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1137455357 |
Download Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Sabine Wilke |
Publisher | : Hotei Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2015-03-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004297871 |
Download German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Thinking about and relating to the environment – what the Germans call Umwelt, i.e., the world that surrounds us – in the way that we do today has a long tradition within modern German culture. German scientists were among the many European explorers that left Europe in the late eighteenth century on voyages of discovery to then unknown parts of the world. For some explorers, discovery meant the fundamental confirmation of their own superiority vis-à-vis primitive peoples and primitive natures; for others it resulted in a shake-up of their belief in the superiority of European civilization in the face of the achievements of other civilizations, or in the face of spectacular nature scenes that outperformed the temperate European landscapes in terms of scale, sublimity, and grandeur. The documents that contain these stories of discovery left an important impression not only on German culture, but on European civilization at large, defining it vis-à-vis other civilizations and other natures. Europe today is the product of these encounters, including the way we conceive of our Umwelt, the environment that surrounds us. The story told in this book is the story of the rise of the modern German environmental imagination with particular emphasis on its narrative and visual components, complementing and expanding Barbara Stafford’s important work in her seminal study of the illustrated travel account from 1984. Chapters on Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, Albert Bierstadt, Leni Riefenstahl, and Werner Herzog unfold the key stages in a process that constitutes the unfolding of the modern German environmental imagination.
Author | : Miranda Gill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2009-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199543283 |
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What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th-century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this interdisciplinary study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.