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1 online resource |
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Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Valuing Films; L. Hubner -- PART I: POLITICS, CRITICISM AND THE CANON -- Use and Exchange: The Politics of Film Evaluation; L. Grist -- Sense and Sensibilities: The Value of Coherence in the Contemporary Twist Film; J. Walters -- Spectacle and Value in Classical Hollywood Cinema; T. Brown -- PART II: FANS, AUDIENCES AND SHIFTING CANONS -- Getting Animated ₆ Valuing Anime; S. Allen -- Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Sub-Cultural Politics of an Unwanted Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers; L. Geraghty -- ŁQue Naco! Mexican Popular Cinema, La Banda del Carro Rojo and the Audience; A. Avalos -- Audience Appreciation of Nigerian Films (Nollywood); O. Esan -- PART III: INSTITUTIONS OF TASTE, QUALITY AND VALUE -- Valuing Film Violence: Student Perceptions on the Inclusion of Violent Films and Film Violence Within the Undergraduate Learning Experience; S. Kimber -- 'The Many Ways of Looking at Cinema': Sight and Sound and the Value of Film; O. Evans -- Delivering the Quality Experience: Franco Zeffirelli; M.P. Wood -- A Vogue for Flesh and Blood? Shifting Classifications of Contemporary European Cinema; L. Hubner -- PART IV: AFTERTHOUGHTS -- Shifting Perceptions of Worth; L. Hubner -- Index |
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Introduction: Valuing Films / L. Hubner -- POLITICS, CRITICISM AND THE CANON. Use and Exchange: The Politics of Film Evaluation / L. Grist -- Sense and Sensibilities: The Value of Coherence in the Contemporary Twist Film / J. Walters -- Spectacle and Value in Classical Hollywood Cinema / T. Brown -- FANS, AUDIENCES AND SHIFTING CANONS. Getting Animated-Valuing Anime / S. Allen -- Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Sub-Cultural Politics of an Unwanted Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers / L. Geraghty -- ¡Que Naco! Mexican Popular Cinema, La Banda del Carro Rojo and the Audience / A. Avalos -- Audience Appreciation of Nigerian Films (Nollywood) / O. Esan -- INSTITUTIONS OF TASTE, QUALITY AND VALUE. Valuing Film Violence: Student Perceptions on the Inclusion of Violent Films and Film Violence Within the Undergraduate Learning Experience / S. Kimber -- 'The Many Ways of Looking at Cinema': Sight and Sound and the Value of Film / O. Evans -- Delivering the Quality Experience: Franco Zeffirelli / M.P. Wood -- A Vogue for Flesh and Blood? Shifting Classifications of Contemporary European Cinema / L. Hubner -- AFTERTHOUGHTS. Shifting Perceptions of Worth / L. Hubner |
| Summary |
This book gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring large-scale value judgements and tastes that underpin social, academic and institutional practices, it also looks at how films relate and contribute to individual life experiences. Studies within this volume survey a wide range of cultural practices and films: from Mexican and Nigerian cinema to anime and European films; from 'violent' and 'extreme' movies to comedies and 'weepies'; from Citizen Kane and Gone with the Wind to Transformers and The Usual Suspects. This collection examines how films are studied and taught, together with the shifting canonical frameworks working within magazines, newspapers and new technologies. It also provides an insight into the hierarchical structures that inform the way audiences and fans from diverse cultures value films in relation to pleasure, entertainment, ethical worth, aesthetic style, depth of meaning and authenticity |
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"This volume gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring value judgements that underpin social, academic and institutional practices, it examines the diverse forms of worth attributed to a range of international films in relation to taste, passion, morality and aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Motion pictures -- Evaluation.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Economic aspects
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Motion picture audiences.
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Film theory & criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Performing Arts.
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Motion picture audiences
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Motion pictures -- Economic aspects
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Motion pictures -- Evaluation
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Filmkunst.
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Receptie.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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Film -- psykologiska aspekter.
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Filmteori.
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Filmkritik.
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Filmsociologi.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hubner, Laura, 1970-
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| ISBN |
9780230305854 |
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0230305857 |
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1283097125 |
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9781283097123 |
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9786613097125 |
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6613097128 |
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