Abstract
What’s new in Cultural Studies in France these days? Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in a research tendency long neglected in this country, in particular with the publication in French of some fundamental texts and a new critical reading of these in the framework of the new ‘médiacultures theory’ propagated by a group of young researchers. In this article, we present médiacultures theory and consider its strengths and weaknesses. Much to be welcomed is its epistemological subjection of high culture products to the same analysis as mass culture. Nonetheless, the omission of reception contexts and the simplification of Marx’s and Gramsci’s insights into the socio-political dimensions of culture — these being authors who deeply influenced Anglophone Cultural Studies research — have meant that the work currently being done in médiacultures is not as far-reaching as it might be.
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