Cultural policy in the twenty-first century: Issues, debates and discourse

French Cultural Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 28, 1999, Pages 005-20

  Looseley, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1642644286     PISSN: 09571558     EISSN: 17402352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095715589901002801     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. La Défaite de la pensée (Paris: Gallimard, 1987). Finkielkraut's book is not directly about policy but is a personal history of cultural relativism.
2. Ministry of Culture, Nouvelle Enquête sur les pratiques culturelles des Français en 1989 (Paris: Documentation Française, 1990)
3. accompanied by O. Donnat and D. Cogneau, Les Pratiques culturelles des Français 1973-1989 (Paris: La Découverte/Documentation Française, 1990).
4. Finkielkraut's critique of the survey appeared in 'Finkielkraut persiste et signe: c'est la défaite de la culture!' (interview), L'Événement du Jeudi, 19 April 1990.
5. For a more objective analysis, see B. Rigby, 'Les Pratiques culturelles des Français 1973-1989: a study of changing trends in the presentation and analysis of government statistics on culture', in R. Chapman and N. Hewitt (eds), Popular Culture and Mass Communication in Twentieth-Century France (Lewiston/ Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), 1-13.
6. The results of a new survey were published in June 1998: O. Donnat, Les Pratiques culturelles des Français: enquête 1997 (Paris: Ministère de la culture et de la communication/Documentation Française).
7. L'État culturel: essai sur une religion moderne (Paris: Fallois, 1991).
8. For details of these commentaries and debates, see D. L. Looseley, The Politics of Fun: Cultural Policy and Debate in Contemporary France (Oxford and Washington D. C. : Berg, 1995, paperback reprint, 1997), Introduction and Chapter 11.
9. e République (Paris: Grasset, 1995)
10. and Rapport au Ministre de la culture. Pour une refondation de la politique culturelle (Paris: Documentation Française, 1996). Future references to these two works will appear in the text, using the abbreviations L'Exception and Rapport.
11. The CDP was the forerunner of today's Centrist CDS, Douste-Blazy's party.
12. e République (Paris: Orban. 1981), 55.
13. Budget details are from P. Poirrier, Histoire des politiques culturelles de la France contemporaine (Dijon: Bibliest, 1996), 114
14. and Le Monde, 10 June 1997, 17, and 20-21 July 1997, 20. As Poirrier indicates, the budgetary situation is confused by the recent transfer into the Ministry of a number of sectors and institutions, with corresponding funds. In the figures quoted here, the extra funds are not taken into account.
15. J.-M. Djian, La Politique culturelle (Paris: Le Monde Éditions/Marabout, 1996), 254-6. In excluding these sectors, Douste-Blazy is said by Rigaud to have yielded to pressure from film- and programme-makers who knew Rigaud to be critical of the quota system (correspondence, 1 December 1997). It may also be that, as head of RTL, he could have been seen as both juge et partie.
16. For Ralite's remarks, see his 'contribution additionnelle', Rapport, pp. 191-8, especially p. 193.
17. For other criticisms, see N. Krafft, 'Mise en abîme', Le Monde de la Musique, no. 207 (February 1997), 5
18. F. Benhamou, 'Rapport Rigaud: oui, mais. . .', Le Journal des Arts, no. 33 (February 1997), 58
19. and above all L'Observatoire (published by L'Observatoire des politiques culturelles in Grenoble), no. 13 (Spring 1997), pp. 4-10. For the list of possible personalities, see 'Personnes à entendre éventuellement dans le cadre de la Commission de Refondation', typed document (supplied by Département des études et de la prospective) .
20. For a similar discourse concerning the new Bibliothèque nationale de France, see D. L. Looseley, 'The Bibliothèque nationale de France, suite et début', Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 5 (February 1997), 21-33.
21. 'Pour une arrivée éventuelle rue de Valois' (1970), reproduced in Comité d'histoire du Ministère de la culture, Les Affaires culturelles au temps de Jacques Duhamel 1971-1973 (Paris: Documentation Française, 1995), 503.