New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

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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. New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies Contents Figures and Tables Introduction Chapter 1 Bourdieu, Field of Cultural Production and Cinema Chapter 2 Bourdieu and Film Studies Chapter 3 Bourdieu and Images of Algerian Women’s Emotional Habitus Chapter 4 The Taste Database Chapter 5 Millennials Protest Chapter 6 A Bourdieuian Approach to Internet Studies Chapter 7 Obtain and Deploy Chapter 8 Weak (Cultural) Field Index