TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dine,Philip
AU  - Gaffney,John
AU  - Holmes,Diana
AU  - Johnson,Christopher
AU  - Lloyd,Heather
AU  - Smith,Alison
AU  - Tinker,Chris
AU  - Weiner,Susan
TI  - Stardom in Postwar France
T2  - Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections
SN  - 9781845450205
AV  - DC402 .S73 2007 
U1  - 305.52 
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Celebrities
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fame
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History: 20th Century to Present, Film and Television Studies, Cultural Studies (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction --; 1. Stardom in Theory and Context --; 2. 1950s Popular Culture: Star-Gazing and Myth-Making with Roland Barthes and Edgar Morin --; 3. ‘A Girl of Today’: Brigitte Bardot --; 4. Rock ’n’ Roll Stardom: Johnny Hallyday --; 5. Stardom on Wheels: Raymond Poulidor --; 6. The Auteur as Star: Jean-Luc Godard --; 7. The Intellectual as Celebrity: Claude Lévi-Strauss --; 8. ‘Starlette de la Littérature’: Françoise Sagan --; 9. The Only Act in Town: Charles de Gaulle --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of a France that was both modern and traditional, we can see how these worlds met and interacted, and how they set the scene for the turbulent 1960s and 70s. The examination of the development of mass culture in post-war France, undertaken in this volume, offers a valuable insight into the shifts that took place. By exploring stardom from the domain of cinema and other fields, represented here by famous figures such as Brigitte Bardot, Johnny Hallyday or Jean-Luc Godard, and less conventionally treated areas of enquiry (politics [de Gaulle], literary [Françoise Sagan], and intellectual culture [Lévi-Strauss]) the reader is provided with a broad understanding of the mechanisms of popularity and success, and their cultural, social, and political roles. The picture that emerges shows that many cultural articulations remained or became identifiably "French," in spite of the American mass-culture origins of these social, economic, and cultural transformations
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450098
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857450098
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857450098/original
ER  -