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Hijacking national identities in French sitcoms: stereotypes and gay performance in Les filles d'à côté (or why the Académie française should watch sitcoms on TF1)

Hijacking national identities in French sitcoms: stereotypes and gay performance in Les filles... French sitcoms: stereotypes and gay performance in Lesfilles d'a cote (or why the Academie francaise should watch sitcoms on TF1) For half a century, French television was the ugly duckling of French culture. More than thirty years ago, Joffre Dumazedier deplored the fact that television had been analysed in terms of a 'High Culture' (Culture 'with a capital "C" ') and that in such a context, leisure (with which television had been systematically associated) could only appear as 'decadent' or as 'minor' at best.' Thirty years later, little has changed: Alain Mine claims that the French media suffer from a surprising form of'collective self-censorship'in a country where 'intellectual reflection scrutinizes the tiniest institutional activity'2 and Dominique Wolton, after years of research in the field, is surprised by the 'constant gap between the cultural and anthropological importance of media and the quasi desert of reflection', 'the lack of respect' enjoyed by television. 3 Hijacking national identities in respected swan, by assigning it the difficult task of representing, and defending, French identity. After fifty years of waddling in the supposedly muddy waters of'low'or 'popular' culture, after years of surviving in the shadow of a prestigious and academically acclaimed 'French cinema', http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

Hijacking national identities in French sitcoms: stereotypes and gay performance in Les filles d'à côté (or why the Académie française should watch sitcoms on TF1)

MAINIL, JEAN
Paragraph , Volume 18 (1): 25 – Mar 1, 1995
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Edinburgh University Press
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0264-8334
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1750-0176
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10.3366/para.1995.18.1.25
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French sitcoms: stereotypes and gay performance in Lesfilles d'a cote (or why the Academie francaise should watch sitcoms on TF1) For half a century, French television was the ugly duckling of French culture. More than thirty years ago, Joffre Dumazedier deplored the fact that television had been analysed in terms of a 'High Culture' (Culture 'with a capital "C" ') and that in such a context, leisure (with which television had been systematically associated) could only appear as 'decadent' or as 'minor' at best.' Thirty years later, little has changed: Alain Mine claims that the French media suffer from a surprising form of'collective self-censorship'in a country where 'intellectual reflection scrutinizes the tiniest institutional activity'2 and Dominique Wolton, after years of research in the field, is surprised by the 'constant gap between the cultural and anthropological importance of media and the quasi desert of reflection', 'the lack of respect' enjoyed by television. 3 Hijacking national identities in respected swan, by assigning it the difficult task of representing, and defending, French identity. After fifty years of waddling in the supposedly muddy waters of'low'or 'popular' culture, after years of surviving in the shadow of a prestigious and academically acclaimed 'French cinema',

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Published: Mar 1, 1995

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