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Contemporary French cultural studies
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- Creator
- edited by William Kidd and Siân Reynolds
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780340740491, 0340740493, 9780340740507, 0340740507
- OCLC
- ocm43417911
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Introduction: to the reader / William Kidd and Sian Reynolds -- 2. France @ your fingertips: print and on-line resources / Elizabeth Ezra and Dougal Campbell -- 3. How the French present is shaped by the past: the last hundred years in historical perspective / Sian Reynolds -- 4. French cultural policy: the special role of the state / Susan Collard -- 5. French education: equal or elitist? / Lucy Mitchell -- 6. Social difference: age and place / Marion Demossier and Susan Milner -- 7. Sexual fault lines: sex and gender in the cultural context / Lucille Cairns -- 8. The challenges of multiculturalism: regional and religious differences in France today / Alec G. Hargreaves -- 9. French political culture: homogeneous or fragmented? / Brian Jenkins -- 10. If it isn't clear, it isn't French: language and identity / James Munro -- 11. French public culture: places and spaces / Helen Beal -- 12. Frenchness: constructed and reconstructed / William Kidd -- 13. Sport and identity in the new France / Philip Dine -- 14. Advertising culture in France: no Coca-Cola please, we're French! / Alastair Duncan -- 15. A night at the theatre / Christophe Campos -- 16. Cinema in a nation of filmgoers / Sue Harris -- 17. Festivals and fetes populaires / Sue Harris -- 18. From press barons to digital TV: changing media in France / Jean-Claude Sergeant -- 19. From Messiaen to MC Solaar: music in France in the second half of the twentieth century / Mary Breatnach and Eric Sterenfeld -- 20. Reading books in France: la culture du livre / Bernard C. Swift -- 21. Intellectuals in French culture / Martyn Cornick -- 22. The French contribution to contemporary cultural analysis / Jeremy F. Lane