Imagining the Popular in Contempory CB

by David Looseley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719078164
• ISBN13: 9780719078163
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"