Abstract
Part 1 Introduction and Sources Introduction France @ your fingertips Part 2 The Background to French Cultural Exceptionalism How the French present is shaped by the past: the last 100 years in historical perspective French cultural policy: the special role of the state French education: equal or elitist? Part 3 Cultural Differences and Identity Politics in France Today Social differences: age and place Sexual fault lines: sex and gender in cultural context The challenge of multiculturalism: regional and religious differences in France today French political culture: homogenous or fragmented? Part 4 Frenchness Revisited: Forces for Cultural Unity If it isn't clear it isn't French: language and identity French public culture: spaces and places Frenchness constructed and reconstructed Part 5 French Cultural Production at the turn of the Twenty-First Century Sport and identity in the new France No Coca-cola please, we're French! The advertising culture in France A night out: theatre and opera Cinema in a nation of filmgoers Festivals and fetes populaires The changing French media: press barons, NRG and digital TV From Messian to MC Solaar: music in France in the late twentieth century Reading books in France: la culture du livre Intellectuals in French culture: where to look today A guide to contemporary cultural analysis: the French contribution
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