The Popular Front in France
The Popular Front in France

Author: Julian Jackson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-05-25

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780521312523

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This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist premier, Léon Blum. After a brief narrative history of the Popular Front the book is organised thematically around the main historiographical debates to which the Popular Front has given rise. Among the issues considered are the origins of the strikes of 1936, the reasons for the failure of the Popular Front economic policy, the relationship between culture and politics in France in the 1930s and the causes of France's policy of non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. The book views the Popular Front at three levels - as a mass movement, political coalition and government - and argues that it must not be seen just as a narrowly political phenomenon but as a political, social and cultural explosion which attempted to break down the barriers between all areas of human activity in the highly compartmentalised society of France in the 1930s. Even if the Popular Front ultimately failed in this aim it has acquired legendary status in France, and the epilogue to the book briefly examines the 'myth' of the Popular Front from 1936 to the present day.

France Since the Popular Front
France Since the Popular Front

Author: Maurice Larkin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 9780198731528

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Professor Larkin analyses the factors that have shaped modern France, provides lively accounts of the political figures and key events of the period and compares the country's progress with that of its European neighbours.

Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture
Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture

Author: Dudley Andrew

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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The authors highlight the new symbolic forces put in play by technologies of the illustrated press and the sound film - technologies that converged with efforts among writers, artists, and other intellectuals to respond to the crises of the decade.

The National Front in France
The National Front in France

Author: Peter Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1134725310

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This provocative and non-polemic study explores the value system of the National Front movement in France, and explains the way in which the movement's ideology has been formulated and articulated in the 1980s and 1990s. Also discussing the crucial role of Le Pen, this book provides a fascinating enquiry into the most controversial political party in contemporary France.

The Front National in France
The Front National in France

Author: Daniel Stockemer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 3319496409

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In light of the transformation of the Front National (FN) to a major player in French politics, this book examines how the unprecedented boost in positive opinions towards the FN as well as its increasing membership and electoral success have been possible. Using a supply and demand framework and a mixed methods approach, the author investigates the development of the FN and compares the “new” FN under Marine Le Pen with the “old” FN under Jean-Marie Le Pen across 4 dimensions: (1) the party’s ideology, (2) the leadership styles of the two leaders including the composition of the party elites and the leaders’/ parties’ relationship with the media, (3) the party members and (4) the party voters. It appeals to scholars interested in the study of radical right-wing movements and parties as well as to anybody interested in French politics.

French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front
French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front

Author: Tony Chafer

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780312218263

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In revisiting the Popular Front sixty years on, this book explores the link between metropolitan France and the empire at a defining moment in their history.

The National Front and French Politics
The National Front and French Politics

Author: Jonathan Marcus

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0814755356

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The extreme right-wing National Front is now France's fourth largest political party. In 1986 under a proportional electoral system it won thirty-five seats in the French National Assembly; in the 1988 Presidential election the National Front's leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, obtained over fourteen percent of the popular vote. Over the past decade, it has won representation at virtually all levels of French politics. Le Pen's xenophobic anti-immigrant message has clearly attracted significant support in France. He has had a major influence upon the terms on which issues like immigration, nationality and racism are debated in France. Drawing on personal interviews with Le Pen and other National Front leaders, Jonathan Marcus traces the rise of Le Pen's party, and its impact on the French political scene, and in the process raises important questions about the future of French, European, and world politics. How far have the mainstream parties of both Left and Right faced up to Le Pen's challenge? Is the National Front now a permanent feature of French politics? To what degree is Le Pen a threat to French democracy? And finally, how successful will Le Pen be in pushing his agenda in the European Parliament?

Popular Culture in Modern France
Popular Culture in Modern France

Author: Brian Rigby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1134981996

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`Culture' is one of the most frequently used terms in the French vocabulary. It sells not only books, newspapers and magazines but also consumer products and political parties. But what are the meanings of `culture populaire'? What have the French understood by it, and what is its history? Brian Rigby's lively and cogent study traces changing notions of popular culture in France, from 1936 - the year of the Popular Front - to the present day. Asking why `culture' has become such a fiercely contested term, Rigby considers the work of the major French theorists, including Barthes, Bourdieu and Baudrillard.

French Peasant Fascism
French Peasant Fascism

Author: Robert O. Paxton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0195111893

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In 1920s France the far-right peasantry wanted an authoritarian and agrarian society. This study examines their singular lack of success and the enduring French perception of themselves as a peasant nation.