Contemporary French Culture And Society
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| Author | : Nicholas Hewitt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2003-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521794657 |
France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a period of unprecedented growth and social transformation. Throughout the century and into the new millennium France retained its former international reputation as a centre for cultural excellence and innovation and its culture, together with that of the Francophone world, reflected the increased richness and diversity of the period. This 2003 Companion explores this vibrant culture, and includes chapters on history, language, literature, thought, theatre, architecture, visual culture, film and music, and discuss the contributions of popular culture, Francophone culture, minorities and women.
| Author | : Alexandra Hughes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2002-03-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134788657 |
More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.
| Author | : Frédéric Royall |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9783039100743 |
An interdisciplinary collection of writings on various aspects of change in contemporary French-speaking society, spanning the broad fields of politics and society, arts and culture, the French language, and francophone literatures.
| Author | : Georges Santoni |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 1981-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780873955157 |
| Author | : Ari J. Blatt |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2019-03-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1786949695 |
The changing look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French culture since the 1980s. This collection of essays explores concern with space across a range of media, from recent cinema, documentary filmmaking and photographic projects to television drama and contemporary fiction, and examines what it reveals about the fluctuating state of the nation in a post-colonial and post-industrial age.
| Author | : Tzvetan Todorov |
| Publisher | : Dartmouth College Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
An internationally renowned scholar examines an episode in the chaos & retributive strife that engulfed France during the liberation at the end of World War II.
| Author | : Rhoda Métraux |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781571818140 |
Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one of the few works by American social scientists dealing with broad themes of French life. Mead and Métraux present a vivid picture of the French starting with the organization of the house and its architecture, and drawing original conclusions for the structure of French families and overall cultural values. This work, long out of print, is a fascinating and penetrating portrait of a contemporary European society.
| Author | : Mireille Rosello |
| Publisher | : Dartmouth College Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Against the background of increasing population diversity in contemporary France and its attendant social tensions, Mireille Rosello analyzes how minorities within French cultures have dismantled stereotypes, and then extrapolates techniques that other marginalized groups might employ. Experiences drawn from Jewish, Maghrebian, and Black communities inform Rosello's observations. By examining current French novels, films, and other media where stereotypes of the ethnic other are confronted and reappropriated, the author reveals ways to recognize, subvert, and defuse a wide range of harmful stereotypes. Whether offering a brilliant reading of Coline Serreau's 1992 film La Crise or probing Baudelaire and Hugo for relevant clues, Rosello engages readers with creative insight, impeccable scholarship, and clarity of expression.
| Author | : Kate Beeching |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2009-10-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027288992 |
Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and Canada are considered, mainly with respect to phonological features but also focusing on syntactic and lexical evolutions (the relative clause in Ivorian French and discourse markers in Canadian French). The acquisition of stylistic features of French figures in chapters on both first and second language learners and variation across different genres is addressed with respect to non-standard non-finite forms. Finally, a section on semantic change traces the way that interactional and other socio-historical factors affect word meaning. The volume will appeal to (socio-)linguists with an interest in contemporary French as well as to advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students of French and specialists in the field.
| Author | : Eric Conan |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : France |
| ISBN | : 9780874517958 |
A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
