Valuing Films

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Valuing Films

   1. Introduction: Valuing Films

      • Laura Hubner

      Pages 1-10

3. Politics, Criticism and the Canon

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Use and Exchange: The Politics of Film Evaluation

      • Leighton Grist

      Pages 13-31

   3. Sense and Sensibilities: The Value of Coherence in the Contemporary Twist Film

      • James Walters

      Pages 32-48

   4. Spectacle and Value in Classical Hollywood Cinema

      • Tom Brown

      Pages 49-66

4. Fans, Audiences and Shifting Canons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Getting Animated — Valuing Anime

      • Steven Allen

      Pages 69-87

   3. Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Subcultural Politics of an Unwanted Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers

      • Lincoln Geraghty

      Pages 88-105

   4. ¡Que Naco! Mexican Popular Cinema, La Banda del Carro Rojo and the Audience

      • Adán Avalos

      Pages 106-120

   5. Audience Appreciation of Nigerian Films (Nollywood)

      • Oluyinka Esan

      Pages 121-145

5. Institutions of Taste, Quality and Value

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Valuing Film Violence: Student Perceptions on the Inclusion of Violent Films and Film Violence within the Undergraduate Learning Experience

      • Shaun Kimber

      Pages 149-166

   3. ‘The Many Ways of Looking at Cinema’: Sight and Sound and the Value of Film

      • Owen Evans

      Pages 167-182

   4. Delivering the Quality Experience: Franco Zeffirelli

      • Mary P. Wood

      Pages 183-197

   5. A Taste for Flesh and Blood? Shifting Classifications of Contemporary European Cinema

      • Laura Hubner

      Pages 198-214

6. Afterthoughts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Shifting Perceptions of Worth

      • Laura Hubner

      Pages 217-219

7. Back Matter

   Pages 220-228

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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.

• cinema
• Europe
• film
• Hollywood
• politics
• Sound

'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

• University of Winchester, UK

  Laura Hubner

STEVEN ALLEN Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK ADÁN AVALOS PhD candidate at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, USA TOM BROWN Lecturer in film at the University of Reading, UK OLUYINKA ESAN Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Winchester, UK OWEN EVANS Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University, UK LINCOLN GERAGHTY Principal Lecturer in Film Studies and Subject Leader for Media Studies in the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth, UK LEIGHTON GRIST Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK SHAUN KIMBER Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK JAMES WALTERS Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK MARY P WOOD Professor of European Cinema, and Head of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, at Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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