''French Cultural Studies'' is a

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that publishes papers in the field of

Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

. The journal's

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is Nicholas Hewitt (

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). It has been in publication since 1990 and is currently published by

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Scope

''French Cultural Studies'' is a journal which seeks to address key changes that have affected aspects of the study of French culture,

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and

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in the education system. It aims to provide a forum for a range of work currently being done on French culture. The journal also includes work on the study of

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

. However, the main focus of the journal of on areas such as cinema,

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, media and the press, the

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

popular culture Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of cultural practice, practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art

f. pop art F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet. F may also refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * F or f, the number 15 (number), 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems * ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function * F-distributi ...

or mass art, sometimes contraste ...

, and cultural and intellectual debate. The journal covers

cultural history Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history ...

, from the French Revolution to the present.

Abstracting and indexing

''French Cultural Studies'' is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases:

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, the

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2010

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is 0.128, ranking it 9th out of 10 journals in the category 'Cultural Studies'.

References

External links

* {{Official website, 1=http://frc.sagepub.com/ Academic journals established in 1990 SAGE Publishing academic journals English-language journals Quarterly journals Cultural journals French studies journals Culture of France Cultural history of France