Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture
Diana Holmes and David Looseley
Abstract
This book, which is about what ‘popular culture’ means in France, and how the term's shifting meanings have been negotiated and contested, represents a 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 the book also provides a set of specific case studies showing how popular songs, stories, films, TV programmes ... More
Keywords: popular culture, France, state policy, market, political ideologies, social context, songs, language styles, French culture
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719078163 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2013 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719078163.001.0001 |
