Jeremy Ahearne - French Cultural Policy Debates

Since the foundation in 1959 of the Ministry of Culture, cultural policy in France has enjoyed a profile unparalleled in any other country. For the first time, French Cultural Policy Debates: A Reader makes available the key contributions to a debate which has not only focused on the precise modes of political intervention in cultural production, but has also provided a forum for the discussion of much wider social and political issues.

A substantial introduction provides an overview of French cultural policy since 1959 and also places each reading in its political and cultural context. Through the writings of leading policy-makers and analysts, such as Andr Malraux, Jack Lang and Pierre Bourdieu, French Cultural Policy Debates traces the emergence of a distinctive model of cultural action, and shows how this was challenged in the wake of 1968 by broader understandings of cultural development. Subsequent readings consider the debates generated in the 1980s by Frances promotion of cultural industrial forms, and reveal more recent challenges to the very notion of a national cultural policy associated with the increasing globalization of the market for cultural goods. The texts address a span of domains, ranging from theatre, painting, opera and film to popular music and community arts, and shape a more fundamental debate concerning the relations between culture, democracy, the economy, technology and the State.

Jeremy Ahearne is lecturer in French Studies and a member of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and its Other, as well as a range of articles on contemporary French thought and culture.

Routledge Harwood Studies in Cultural Policy

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French Cultural Policy Debates
Jeremy Ahearne

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Jeremy Ahearne
INTRODUCTION

PART ONE
The invention and early critiques of cultural policy

Jean Vilar
THEATRE: A PUBLIC SERVICE (1960)

Joffre Dumazedier and A. Ripert
LEISURE AND CULTURE (1966)

Andr Malraux
SPEECH GIVEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE HOUSE OF CULTURE AT AMIENS (1966)

Pierre Bourdieu
INEQUALITY AT SCHOOL AS THE KEY TO CULTURAL INEQUALITY (1966)

PART TWO
Cultural development

Francis Jeanson
CHALON: FOUR YEARS OF CULTURAL ACTION (1971)

Jacques Duhamel
THE AGE OF CULTURE (1972)

Pierre Gaudibert
CULTURAL ACTION : INTEGRATION AND / OR SUBVERSION (1977)

Augustin Girard
CULTURAL INDUSTRIES (1978)

PART THREE
National creation and the economy

Jack Lang
CULTURE AND THE ECONOMY (1982)

Marc Guillaume
THE CULTURAL IMPERATIVE (1983)

Jacques Renard
A CULTURAL ELAN (1987)

Olivier Donnat
CULTURAL DEMOCRATIZATION: THE END OF A MYTH (1991)

Marc Fumaroli
THE CULTURAL STATE (1991)

Jean Caune
THE POWER OF CREATION OR POWER TO THE CREATORS? (1992)

PART FOUR
The routinization of charisma

Jacques Rigaud
THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES (1996)

Philippe Urfalino
MISSIONS FOR THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE (1997)

Pierre Sansot
CULTURAL FEBRILITY (1998)

Catherine Trautmann
CHARTER OF PUBLIC SERVICE MISSIONS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (1998)

Catherine Trautmann
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND THE CULTURAL EXCEPTION (1999)