[ecrea] New publication. A history of French television under de Gaulle

NEW PUBLICATION

Jérôme Bourdon

Histoire de la télévision sous de Gaulle
Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée d’un avant-propos

(History of television under de Gaulle. New edition, corrected and with 
a new foreword on television historiography).


Co-publication Presses des Mines et Institut National de l’Audiovisuel.


Link with the publisher’s website :

http://www.pressesdesmines.com/histoire-de-la-television-sous-de-gaulle.html


PRESENTATION

Some 25 years ago, this « History of Television under De Gaulle » 
pioneered research on the past of a still vividly present medium, 
television. It has remained a work of reference ever since. This 
re-edition had been corrected and enriched with a new foreword on the 
present state of television historiography.

In the evolution of the French media, the period is crucial, in all 
respects. Political with the belief in the absolute power of the medium, 
sociological when the small screen quickly reached the vast majority of 
the population, cultural as a new language is invented and new popular 
images proliferate, professional, finally, with the birth of new 
professions, within the peculiar universe of a growing public 
institution, the ORTF (the French Broadcasting Corporation).

As cultural historian Jean-Pierre Rioux wrote when the book was first 
published, this “reconsideration of the Gaullian decade of the Fifth 
Republic gives an excellent occasion and a rich argumentation to discuss 
the future of television”, and he concluded: “this indispensable book 
was badly needed”. Here it is, available again!



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Prof. Jerome Bourdon
Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University
Associate researcher, Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Paris
http://telaviv.academia.edu/JeromeBourdon