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The international team of contributors and consultants have provided over 700 entries offering wide-ranging coverage and crossing the traditional boundaries between disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. French culture is defined in its broadest sense and areas covered include: Economy Education Film Food and Wine Gender and Sexuality Intellectual Life Language and Identity Literature Media Music Performing Arts Politics Religion Society Visual Arts. Entries range from shorter, factual contributions to longer overview essays, and provide an essential context for anyone studying French, readers with an interest in critical theory and anyone pursuing comparative studies in European culture. To assist readers with their research a classified contents list identifies relevant entries within a particular field. The articles are extensively cross-referenced to provide links between subjects and conclude with annotated suggestions for further reading.
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. eBook available with sample pages: 0203003306
The multiple impact of the May 1968 events in France is here
reviewed and analysed, initially through a narrative account of the
events themselves and then through a systematic survey of the
various manners in which they have been interpreted and reproduced
in France. This covers successively political, social/sociological,
and cultural texts - first-hand accounts along with works by
political activists and academic social scientists - before moving
to a consideration of fictional works (novels and feature films)
dealing with or set during the events.
Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, Foucault - the currency of these names
in the world of modern thought is widespread. But all too often in
the English-speaking world their work and ideas are considered
without reference to the context in which they were produced, and
this is the gap that this new study sets out to fill. The major
revaluation of what constituted the 'political', set in train by
the 1968 events is a key theme here, and the work of the best-known
French intellectual figures of the time both illuminates and is
illuminated by it. But it is not just a new reading of already
familiar figures that the reader will find in this work. Writers
little-known in the English-speaking world, or hitherto not
extensively treated in English, receive similar contextualising
attention, so that the recent upsurge in sociology or the impact of
a dissident Marxist such as Henri Lefebvre take their place
alongside better-known figures in the first book-length
English-language survey of one of the most exciting, and often
bewildering, periods in European intellectual history.
Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, Foucault - the currency of these names
in the world of modern thought is widespread. But all too often in
the English-speaking world their work and ideas are considered
without reference to the context in which they were produced, and
this is the gap that this new study sets out to fill. The major
revaluation of what constituted the 'political', set in train by
the 1968 events is a key theme here, and the work of the best-known
French intellectual figures of the time both illuminates and is
illuminated by it. But it is not just a new reading of already
familiar figures that the reader will find in this work. Writers
little-known in the English-speaking world, or hitherto not
extensively treated in English, receive similar contextualising
attention, so that the recent upsurge in sociology or the impact of
a dissident Marxist such as Henri Lefebvre take their place
alongside better-known figures in the first book-length
English-language survey of one of the most exciting, and often
bewildering, periods in European intellectual history.
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