Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds|David Looseley is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary French Culture at the University of Leeds

...there is much here to attract and hold the reader’s attention.The editors and authors are to be congratulated for the depth of critical expertise and the clarity of exposition that they bring to their coverage of both the topic as a whole and their particular areas of specialist knowledge. The book thus represents a significant addition to research on popular culture inadvanced societies and as such will be of interest to scholars outside the confines of French Studies."All in all, this volume is an excellent addition to our thinking about the ways in which popular culture in France has been conceptualized and materialized."(Hugh Dauncey; French Studies: 2014)

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionDiana Holmes and David Looseley1. Politics and Pleasure: Inventing Popular Culture in Contemporary FranceDavid Looseley2. Authenticity and Appropriation: A Discursive History of French Popular MusicDavid Looseley3. The Mimetic Prejudice: the Popular Novel in France Diana Holmes4. Why Popular Films are Popular : Identification, Imitation and Critical MortificationDavid Platten5. French Television: Negotiating the National PopularLucy Mazdon6. Social and Linguistic Change in French: Does Popular Culture Mean Popular Language? Nigel ArmstrongConclusionDiana Holmes and David LooseleyBibliographyIndex

Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds|David Looseley is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary French Culture at the University of Leeds

...there is much here to attract and hold the reader’s attention.The editors and authors are to be congratulated for the depth of critical expertise and the clarity of exposition that they bring to their coverage of both the topic as a whole and their particular areas of specialist knowledge. The book thus represents a significant addition to research on popular culture inadvanced societies and as such will be of interest to scholars outside the confines of French Studies."All in all, this volume is an excellent addition to our thinking about the ways in which popular culture in France has been conceptualized and materialized."(Hugh Dauncey; French Studies: 2014)

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionDiana Holmes and David Looseley1. Politics and Pleasure: Inventing Popular Culture in Contemporary FranceDavid Looseley2. Authenticity and Appropriation: A Discursive History of French Popular MusicDavid Looseley3. The Mimetic Prejudice: the Popular Novel in France Diana Holmes4. Why Popular Films are Popular : Identification, Imitation and Critical MortificationDavid Platten5. French Television: Negotiating the National PopularLucy Mazdon6. Social and Linguistic Change in French: Does Popular Culture Mean Popular Language? Nigel ArmstrongConclusionDiana Holmes and David LooseleyBibliographyIndex

Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds|David Looseley is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary French Culture at the University of Leeds

...there is much here to attract and hold the reader’s attention.The editors and authors are to be congratulated for the depth of critical expertise and the clarity of exposition that they bring to their coverage of both the topic as a whole and their particular areas of specialist knowledge. The book thus represents a significant addition to research on popular culture inadvanced societies and as such will be of interest to scholars outside the confines of French Studies."All in all, this volume is an excellent addition to our thinking about the ways in which popular culture in France has been conceptualized and materialized."(Hugh Dauncey; French Studies: 2014)

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionDiana Holmes and David Looseley1. Politics and Pleasure: Inventing Popular Culture in Contemporary FranceDavid Looseley2. Authenticity and Appropriation: A Discursive History of French Popular MusicDavid Looseley3. The Mimetic Prejudice: the Popular Novel in France Diana Holmes4. Why Popular Films are Popular : Identification, Imitation and Critical MortificationDavid Platten5. French Television: Negotiating the National PopularLucy Mazdon6. Social and Linguistic Change in French: Does Popular Culture Mean Popular Language? Nigel ArmstrongConclusionDiana Holmes and David LooseleyBibliographyIndex