Specially commissioned essays by specialists focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions in this Companion. The book provides information and analysis on such topics as French national identity, architecture, the mass media, food, literature, cinema, intellectual culture and music. It features supplementary material that includes a chronology, illustrations and suggestions for further reading.

This invaluable book not only assesses the life and work of one of Europe's most important and innovative writers, it also casts revealing light on crucial areas of French cultural, social, and political history.

This book examines Celine's entire oeuvre of the interwar years and the Occupation, and places it in the literary and intellectual context of contemporary France.

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.

An introduction to the works of Michel Tournier. This study examines the nature of the attack which Tournier mounts on many of the norms and assumptions of Western culture, and his reinterpretation of the mythologies which have nourished and sustained it.