France and the Mass Media

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Brian Rigby, Nicholas Hewitt

   Pages 1-3

3. The French Communist Party in the 1950s: Between National Tradition and Counter-Culture

   • Jeannine Verdès-Leroux

   Pages 5-19

4. Catholic Cultural Policy from 1944 to 1950: ‘Bande dessinée’ and Cinema

   • Michael Kelly

   Pages 20-36

5. The Vivre son temps Collection: Intellectuals, Modernity and Mass Culture

   • Brian Rigby

   Pages 37-58

6. The Setting-up of a ‘Method of Production’ in the French Cinema 1946–50

   • Jean-Pierre Jeancolas

   Pages 59-67

7. What Made a Popular Film in France in the 1950s

   • Pierre Sorlin

   Pages 68-84

8. The ‘Série Noire’

   • Jill Forbes

   Pages 85-97

9. The Introduction of Science Fiction into France

   • Pascal Ory

   Pages 98-110

10. The Birth of the Glossy Magazines: The Case of Paris-Match

    • Nicholas Hewitt

    Pages 111-128

11. Radio, Culture and Democracy in France in the Immediate Postwar Period 1944–50

    • Hélène Eck

    Pages 129-146

12. The Arrival of Opinion Polls in French Radio and Television 1945’60

    • Cécile Méadel

    Pages 147-176

13. The Growth of Opinion Polls in French Television 1958–74

    • Jérôme Bourdon

    Pages 177-194

14. Changing Places in French Song from 1945 to the Present Day

    • Louis-Jean Calvet

    Pages 195-199

15. French Popular Song: Changing Myths of the People

    • Adrien Rifkin

    Pages 200-219

16. Back Matter

    Pages 220-238

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In this volume specialists from Britain and France adopt a fresh approach to the study of French culture since 1945 by focusing on the mass media and on a whole range of popular cultural forms. As well as introducing English-speaking readers to such new fields as French radio, television, science fiction and popular song, this volume also highlights how the French themselves responded to the growing importance of the mass media in postwar France.

• culture
• democracy
• film
• Tradition

• University of Warwick, UK

  Brian Rigby

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Nicholas Hewitt

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