"Francotheque" seeks to provide a French-language resource for undergraduate students of French. Direct access to contemporary French culture and society is offered through carefully selected authentic texts and a comprehensive overview of France and the French is provided under six broad headings - history, multicultural society, media, the arts, science and technology, the Francophone world - through press articles, historical documents, photographs, posters, advertisements, statistics, poems and songs. Each section starts with an introduction. Contents:
chapitre 1. Histoires franco-françaises -- chapitre 2. Une société multiculturelle -- chapitre 3. Médias -- chapitre 4. Culture -- chapitre 5. Découvertes -- chapitre 6. Politique et économie -- chapitre 7. La francophonie.

French Studies in and for the 21st Century draws together a range of key scholars to examine the current state of French Studies in the UK, taking account of the variety of factors which have made the discipline what it is. The book looks ahead to the place of French Studies in a world that is increasingly interdisciplinary, and where student demands, new technologies and transnational education are changing the ways in which we learn, teach, research and assess. Required reading for all UK French Studies scholars, the book will also be an essential text for the French Studies community worldwide as it grapples with current demands and plans for the future.

This book adopts a dual historical and generic perspective, summarizing and analyzing numerous plays and recounting significant anecdotes. Gathering information from an abundant bibliography and a biographical index of playwrights, it is both a practical handbook and an incentive to rethink what was one of the major social activities of the 19th century.

Through the study of a wide range of genres - childhood narrative, third-person autobiography, biography, interview, radio interview, biographical film, real-life document, tape-recorded autobiography - we are presented seven variations on Rimbaud's formula: Je est un autre.

This reference book presents the major writers and their greatest works chronologically, placing them in their historical and cultural contexts, which are useful for understanding texts and enjoying reading. More than 150 major writers are presented in detail.

The first part of this book explores some of the major themes characteristic of the anti-modern movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. The second part examines some of the great anti-modern figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, or rather, some of the major anti-modern configurations.

Contents: I. French National/Transnational Cinema; II. Representing Space in Cinema and New Media; III. Postcolonial Locations: Francophone Film and Algeria.

Taking a text-led approach, with the emphasis on more recent popular films, Studying French Cinema is directed at non-specialists such as students of French, Film Studies, and the general reader with an interest in post-war French cinema. Each of the chapters focuses on one or more key films from the ground-breaking films of the nouvelle vague to contemporary documentary.

Through its analyses of twenty notable and representative French films that have appeared since 1980, Le Cinema francais contemporain: Manuel de classe offers an eagle-eyed view of recent French cinema that will delight advanced students of French as well as Francophone students of French film.

The volume which is here presented consists of twelve essays by recognized experts in particular fields, each essay being complete in itself, while together they cover the interaction of government and society over the whole range of French history from the earliest times to the 1950s. This book will be of interest to students of politics, government, history, sociology, and policy.