Research Guides: Global Cultural Studies: Francophone Resources

French and Francophone Studies Resources

(Ebook) Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture
ISBN: 9780415131865

Publication Date: 1998
(Ebook) Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity
ISBN: 1443853526

Publication Date: 2013
(Ebook) Medieval France: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 0824044444

Publication Date: 1995
(Print) Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary by Margaret Majumdar
Call Number: MOH Reference DC33.7 .F724 2002

ISBN: 9780340806968

Publication Date: 2003

Databases

Access World News
Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.
Contemporary World Music
Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Starting with over 2,000 albums, and over 29,500 tracks, regular additions are made to this collection.
Persée
Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales. The French journals in the field of humanities constitute a rich scientific heritage. Their digitization and online publication aim to fulfill a triple objective: promote scientific publications in French; facilitate free access to the results of scientific research; furnish the scientific community with tools for research and documentation.

French and Francophone Videos

Find French Language DVDs in the Willamette University Libraries by clicking on this link,

Streaming Video Databases

Kanopy
Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, tv series, and more. Do a search for the word French and sort by Global Studies & Languages OR search for the word France and sort by Global Studies & Languages and you'll find a wonderful variety of films and programs about all the French-speaking world.

Awara Soup: Diversity in French Guiana [Kanopy]
The awara soup is a kind of stew containing a variety of ingredients from French Guiana that blends diverse ingredients with a harmony of taste. just as the film itself explores the extraordinary cultural diversity of one small town.

Academic Video Online [AVON]
Provides videos of documentaries, interviews, performances, and more. Contains more than 80,000 video titles spanning a range of subject areas including cinema studies.

Au Pays des Hommes Integres [AVON]
Last of the ancient African civilizations to have kept intact, for more than a thousand years, their political, social and sacred way of functioning, the Mossés have a considerable influence on the functioning of political life in Burkina Faso. This film highlights the cosmogony of this people by showing their ceremonies closely linked to the worship of ancestors and the deities present in nature.

Websites

Gallica
Available through the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica provides access to a large and growing corpus of digitized texts.
French and Francophone Digital Humanities Projects
This LibGuide compiles information regarding French and Francophone Digital Humanities projects from all over the world.
Creating French Culture
Cultural history of France, illuminated by 200 treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Follow this link to access Willamette Student Senior French and Francophone Studies Theses. You'll need to login with your Willamette ID to see the whole collection.

French and Francophone Theses

Follow this link to find other guides for French and Francophone Related courses

(Some of these are older courses and may not have been revised lately)