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Stardom in Postwar France / ed. by Diana Holmes, John Gaffney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 12Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845450205
  • 9780857450098
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.52
LOC classification:
  • DC402 .S73 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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