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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Valuing Films
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Politics, Criticism and the Canon
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Fans, Audiences and Shifting Canons
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Institutions of Taste, Quality and Value
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Afterthoughts
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'This special collection of essays is a valuable addition to a subject that has been neglected in film studies over the past few decades. Containing a diverse number of articles covering different films, by various critics from Britain and the United States, it provides insightful and new readings into an area that deserves further exploration, as the very important introduction and epilogue by its editor reveals. A worthy addition to the area of film studies.'
- Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
'Film studies has been slow to acknowledge how central debates about value must be to its concerns. This welcome collection opens up a wide range of value debates, many of which were foreclosed by cinema's need to achieve respectability as an art. Ranging from classic vs modern Hollywood, and European art cinema's problematic status, to the newer frontiers of Japanese anime, Mexican popular cinema and Nigeria's Nollywood, the authors display an encouraging appetite for new sources of data, new audience attitudes, and the self-evident fact that value motivates much of our media behaviour.'
- Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
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Book Title: Valuing Films
Book Subtitle: Shifting Perceptions of Worth
Editors: Laura Hubner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305854
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22968-6Published: 05 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31104-0Published: 05 April 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30585-4Published: 05 April 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 228
Topics: Film History, Screen Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Genre, Media Studies