Valuing Films Shifting Perceptions of Worth

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.

Laura Hubner is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Film at the University of Winchester, UK, where she is programme director for BA (Hons) Film Studies. She is the author of The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

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 – 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
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