Popular Culture
Spring 1997
Cover photo by Roger Turquéti
Interviews
Jean Baudrillard
Daniel Pennac
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 SOLAAR
Questionnaire
Jean-François Brière, Jill Forbes, Linda Orr, Dennis Porter, Kristin Ross, Michael Sheringham
Fiction and Poetry
Estelle Monbrun (introduction by Pierre Verdaguer)
MEURTRE CHEZ TANT 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