Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites

Volume 1, Issue 1

Popular Culture

Spring 1997

Cover photo by Roger Turquéti

Interviews
Jean Baudrillard
Daniel Pennec
Umberto Eco

Articles and Essays
Kristin Ross--The Sociologist and the Priest
Pierre Verdaguer--Mauvais genre et BCBG policiers
Mark McKinney--Haunting Figures in Contemporary Discourse and Popular Culture
Michael Kelly--The Historical Emergence of Everyday Life
Panivong Norindr--"Popularizing" French Culture: The Bibliothèque de France
Susan Weiner--Accidental Eroticism: Encounters Between Television and Cinema in the Fifties and Sixties
Jean Mainil--Le Baiser de la femme speakerine: télévision et romans beurs
Jean-Philippe Mathy--The Popularity of American Culture
Daniel Gercke--On the Eve of Distraction: Gaumont's Fantômas, 1913-1914
Marie-Pierre Le Hir--French Cultural Studies in the United States: A Case Study
Victoria De Grazia--Americanization and Changing Paradigms of Consumer Modernity: France, 1930-1990
Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel--Arts et espaces publics
Lucretia Escudero-Chauvel--Umberto Eco, the Sixties, and Cultural Studies
Richard Klein--Chanel's Cosmos
Jean-Yves Jouannais--Le Complexe du potager
Marc Augé: An Ethnologist in the Metro
Jean Kramer--"Popular" Opera, Politicians, and the people
Marc Fumaroli--Loisirs et loisir
Michel de Praconta--Tobie Nathan: A Traveler Among Cultures
Maryse Fauvel--Brétecher moraliste
Catherine Liu--French Rap/MC Solar

Questionaire
Jean-François Brière, Jill Forbes, Linda Orr, Dennis Porter, Kristin Ross, Michael Sheringham

Fiction/Poetry
Estelle Monbrun introduced by Pierre Verdaguer--Meurtre chez Tante Léonie / Murder Chez Proust
Jean L'Anselme--Papiers Johnny
Dashiell Hedayat--Soft Power
Michel Deguy--Grands Cimetières..., Et je n'emporte à dire faux..., and Je vous préviens...
Harry Mathews--Le Coucou de Dédé