Charles de Gaulle and the Media: Leadership, TV and the Birth of the Fifth Republic
In: French Politics, Society and Culture Ser
Intro -- Dedication -- Archives Consulted -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Politics Between Communication and Personalisation -- Chapter 1: The Mass Media in France Between 1944 and 1958 -- 1 The Press and the Radio in the Years Following the Liberation -- 2 The Ostracisation of the General from Radio -- 3 The Problems of the Press and the Beginning of Advertising (1947-54) -- 4 Periodical Newspapers and the Algerian War -- 5 Press and Censorship: The Mollet Affair-Le Monde -- 6 Politics Enters Television (1953-58) -- Chapter 2: The Personalisation of Politics and Government Communication During the Fourth Republic -- 1 The Spectre of Political Personalisation -- 2 Antoine Pinay and the Birth of a "Myth" -- 3 The Political Communication Strategies of Pierre Mendès France -- 4 Guy Mollet: Television Enters Matignon -- 5 The Demise of the Fourth Republic -- Chapter 3: De Gaulle and the Press: A 30-Year-Long Misunderstanding -- 1 A Devoted but Suspicious Reader -- 2 The Press and the Return of the General -- 3 De Gaulle and the Press (1958-69) -- 4 The Aristocratic Detachment of the General and Debré's Activism -- 5 An Ambiguous Relationship -- Chapter 4: Political Control on Television -- 1 The General's News -- 2 The RTF Statute -- 3 The Minister of Information: A Role "Under Tutelage" -- 4 Michel Debré: The Implacable Guardian of Gaullist Orthodoxy -- 5 The Great Puppeteer of the Small Screen -- Chapter 5: The General and the Small Screen -- 1 The General Faces the Cameras -- 2 Général-Micro's Masterpiece: The Press Conference -- 3 The Television Speeches: The General's Secret Weapon -- Chapter 6: Leadership and Television: The General and Constitutional Development During the Fifth Republic -- 1 An Ambiguous Constitution -- 2 De Gaulle Drops the Mask of the "Arbiter"