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(2011) Valuing films, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Value is hard to pin down; it is perhaps easier to see what it does than assess what it is. Nevertheless this volume attempts to consider what "valuing" a film means and what films mean to people by looking at the diverse forms of worth attributed to films on personal, political, institutional, industrial and commercial levels. It examines what forms of value are at stake — implicitly and explicitly — in a wide range of material indicators of merit, from awards, academic practices and box office figures through to critical reviews, canonical lists, fan-sites and audience responses. It also seeks to explore how films relate and contribute to individual life experiences in light of the diverse hierarchical systems that determine the way films are categorized, consumed and studied.
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Hubner, L. (2011)., Introduction: valuing films, in L. Hubner (ed.), Valuing films, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-10.
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