Cultural History in France: Local Debates, Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032091846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 344 str.

Evelyne Cohen; Ana?s Fl?chet; Pascale Goetschel

Opis

This book questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France – with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural, media and gender studies – to elaborate a "social history of representations" and depict the major questions underlying the historical debate in the 21st century.

Spis treści

Part I: Definitions and Frontiers  1. Introduction to Part I  2. Cultural History: A Domain, a Perspective, and an Interface  3. What Is Mediology?  4. Literary History/Cultural History: Material for a Dialogue  5. The Cultural Dimension of Social History  6. The History of Knowledge: Social or Cultural History?  7. Borders (and Their Porosity) Between Cultural History and Media History  8. Myths and Truths of French Legal Culture, 19th-20th Centuries  9. Debate on the Sociology of Culture  Part II: Subjects  10. Introduction to Part II  11. Inner Senses and Their Old Markers  12. Towards a History of Colors: Possibilities and Limits  13. For a History of the Sensitivity to the Weather  14. From the Reading of 18th-Century Police Archives to the Construction of Objects of Historical Study  15. History: The Masculine Hypothesis  16. A Romantic House: George Sand’s Nohant  17. Television and Mass Culture  18. Cultural History and Music  19. A Contribution to a Historical Approach to the Audiovisual Landscapes of Radio and Television  20. "Popular Culture", "Mass Culture": A Definition or a Prerequisite?  Part III: Memory and History  21. Introduction to Part III  22. Italian Sites of Memory  23. Historiographical Conflicts and Memory-Based Heritage: On the Luoghi della memoria and L’Italie par elle-même, Edited by Mario Isnenghi  24. Sites of Memory, Erinnerungsorte  25. "A Cry of Horror from the Abyss": Passers-On of the Indescribable: Lemkin, Fry, Karski, 1941-1944  26. Israeli National Memory: Formation, Variations, and Objections  Part IV: Perspectives and Transfers  27. Introduction to Part IV  28: Can We Write a European History of Culture in the Contemporary Period?  29. Disciplinary Smuggling  30. The Paris-London Line of Cultural Studies: A One-Way Track?  31. British Perspectives on French Cultural History  32. Is There History Under Colonial Culture?  33. Colonial History Today: A Cultural History?  34. Appraisal and Ideas for a Global Cultural History  35. Some Remarks on the Teaching of Cultural History in Eastern European Universities  36. Cultural History Facing the "Transnational Turn"  37. General Conclusion

O autorze

Evelyne Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Cultural History at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB-Lyon University).

Anaïs Fléchet is Associate Professor of History at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Pascale Goetschel is Professor of Social and Political History of Culture at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Laurent Martin is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle.

Pascal Ory is Professor Emeritus of History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.