Valuing Films

Shifting Perceptions of Worth

By: Laura Hubner (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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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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List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Valuing Films	p. 1
Politics, Criticism and the Canon
Use and Exchange: The Politics of Film Evaluation	p. 13
Sense and Sensibilities: The Value of Coherence in the Contemporary Twist Film	p. 32
Spectacle and Value in Classical Hollywood Cinema	p. 49
Fans, Audiences and Shifting Canons
Getting Animated - Valuing Anime	p. 69
Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Subcultural Politics of an Unwanted Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers	p. 88
¡Que Naco! Mexican Popular Cinema, La Banda del Carro Rojo and the Audience	p. 106
Audience Appreciation of Nigerian Films (Nollywood)	p. 121
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	p. 149
'The Many Ways of Looking at Cinema': Sight and Sound and the Value of Film	p. 167
Delivering the Quality Experience: Franco Zeffirelli	p. 183
A Taste for Flesh and Blood? Shifting Classifications of Contemporary European Cinema	p. 198
Afterthoughts Shifting Perceptions of Worth	p. 217
Index	p. 220
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