New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
ISBN-10
178533168X
ISBN-13
9781785331688
Category
Social Science
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2016-07-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Guy Austin

Description

Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of power, class, and culture in the modern era. Ubiquitous though Bourdieu’s theories are, however, they have only intermittently been used to study some of the most important forms of cultural production today: cinema and new media. With topics ranging from film festivals and photography to constantly evolving mobile technologies, this collection demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu’s key concepts hold for the field of media studies, deploying them as powerful tools of analysis and forging new avenues of inquiry in the process.

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