The Media In Contemporary France

The Media In Contemporary France
Author: Kuhn, Raymond
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0335236227

This is an up-to-date account of the news media of press, radio, television and the internet in one of the major media states of the European Union.

The Media in France

The Media in France
Author: Raymond Kuhn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-04-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134980531

Tackles key issues eg audiovisual expansion, covers press, radio, TV and `new media'. Author specialist in field.

Crime and Media in Contemporary France

Crime and Media in Contemporary France
Author: Deborah Streifford Reisinger
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781557534330

Reisinger examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. The study's innovative and interdisciplinary approach integrates media, cinema, and literary studies to analyze how crime news functions as a site of discursive struggle. By situating these crime stories in a larger historical and political context, she analyzes how media and politicians use the crime story as a tool for upholding the dominant ideology.

Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain
Author: Michael Scriven
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 180073509X

The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemination of information and for mass entertainment has irreversibly altered the manner in which nations perceive themselves and each other. This volume explores the multiple and complex ways in which audiovisual developments in two important European states have impacted on the life styles and attitudes of the population at large and its governing elites. This is the first study that is devoted to the highly significant roles played by France and Britain in the formulation of European audiovisual policy and that provides a truly comparative analysis of the contemporary audiovisual scene in the two countries. It consists of four complementary sections: an overview of the audiovisual landscapes in Britain and France; an analysis of television programming; an account of the new cable and satellite media, and an assessment of European audiovisual integration. Overall, this volume offers a constructive contribution to the continuing debate on national and European broadcasting.

Contemporary France

Contemporary France
Author: David Howarth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1444118870

At least since the French Revolution, France has the peculair distinction of simultaneously fascinating, charming and exasperating its neighbours and foreign observers. Contemporary France provides an essential introduction for students of French politics and society, exploring contemporary developments while placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes for insightful analysis. Thus, chapters on France's economic policy and welfare state, its foreign and European policies and its political movements and recent institutional developments are informed by an analysis of the country's unique political and institutional traditions, distinct forms of nationalism and citizenship, dynamic intellectual life and recent social trends. Summaries of key political, economic and social movements and events are displayed as exhibits.

North Africans in Contemporary France

North Africans in Contemporary France
Author: R. Derderian
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137066989

Derderian looks at the large North African population in France and their attempts for recognition in a country which has long denied its rich immigration past and present. He considers how the North African community has developed from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, especially in their political and cultural initiatives. Derderian examines the radio station Radio Beur and the television show La Famille Ramdam , as well as political initiatives and the role of ethnic minorities in defining prominent French sites of memory such as the working-class suburbs or banlieues and the Algerian War. Based largely on oral history, Derderian draws from a wealth of interviews with North African artists and creators as well as various French cultural actors.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture
Author: Alex Hughes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 641
Release: 1998
Genre: France
ISBN: 0415131863

An international team of scholars contribute over 700 entries on contemporary French culture that range from Art, Gender, Politics and Literature to Media and the Economy. It is a vital companion for anyone interested in the culture of modern France.

Humour in Contemporary France

Humour in Contemporary France
Author: Jonathan Ervine
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1789624649

Humour and freedom of expression were widely discussed following the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks. However, much analysis failed to assess the evolution of French humour in recent decades. This book examines what both Charlie Hebdo and French stand-up comedy can tell us about multiculturalism and humour in contemporary France.

Designing the French Interior

Designing the French Interior
Author: Anca I. Lasc
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0857857797

Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.

Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture

Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture
Author: Diana Holmes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1526130262

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.