Elaboration of a theory of the cultural representations of the political identities : the example of the cultural policy of the National Front from 1986 till 1998 ; Élaboration d'une théorie des représentations culturelles des identités politiques : l'exemple de la politique culturelle du Front nati...
This thesis joins in the field of a reflection, which suggests thinking of the cultural mediation as a shape of representation and expression of the political identities. The thesis studies more particularly the cultural policy of the National Front between 1986 and 1998 The first part studies, generally speaking the inseparable relation between culture and politics, by proposing a definition of cultural policies and cultural mediation.A second part presents the characteristics of the political identity of the F.N.: it is about a political speech based on the exclusion from the other one, on the particular shape of expression of the identity and, on the modalities of sublimation of the actors.The third part concerns cultural policies implemented in the cities of Vitrolles, Marignane, Orange and Toulon, during the actual exercise of the power between 1995 and 1998, by analyzing the most characteristic actions of the F.N.' identity : the cancellariat of municipal subsidies, the "censorship" exercised within municipal libraries, etc. …These actions express in particular the contesting of the state power and propose a specific approach of the national identity.The fourth part proposes a reflection on the political ideal and on the place of the imagination in the political identity of the F.N. The ideology of the National Front rests on a fantasized political ideal, the guideline of which is to arouse the gathering by a strategy that dresses a shape of paranoiac speech.The fifth part is dedicated to the aesthetic and cultural references of the National Front in the field of the cultural mediation (plastic arts, architecture, live performance, edition, music, cinema and broadcasting).The cultural policies of the F.N. express, so, fantasies of persecution -the plot and the fear-, which join a fantastical dimension of the political identity of the National Front. ; Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le champ d'une réflexion qui se propose de penser la médiation culturelle comme une forme de représentation et d'expression des ...