Film Festivals, Bourdieu, and the Economization of Culture

Authors
Publication date 2014
Journal Revue Canadienne d'Études Cinématographiques
Volume | Issue number 23 | 1
Pages (from-to) 74-89
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract This article uses the work of Pierre Bourdieu to assess the economization of global art cinema and film festivals. Bourdieu has written extensively on art and its function in society. He is most famous for his novel argumentation on the correlation between aesthetic taste and class in Distinction. This article, however, focuses on his later work on the field of cultural production, which offers advantageous conceptual frames for examining the changing intersections between art and commerce at contemporary film festivals.
Document type Article
Language English
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