Film Cultures

′Film Cultures is thought-provoking and challenging. By opening film theory up to the many simultaneous networks of relation (that is, the cultures) of film, it asks both viewer and student to take film more seriously′ - Communication Research Trends

`Film Cultures weaves together insights from cultural theory and film studies to provide a complex and absorbing theoretical account of contemporary film culture. Harbord argues that the spaces in which individual films are produced, exhibited and consumed need to be explored, thus opening up for analysis the circuits, networks and screens through which particular film cultures are constructed. Harbord writes with authority, imagination and wit and her delicate deployment of modernist and postmodernist cultural accounts makes rewarding reading′ - Christine Geraghty, Professor of Film and Television, Glasgow University

"In this slim, well-researched volume, Harbord argues that the "value" of a film is relational. What viewers bring to a film - i.e., the influences of family, education, and work - lead them to accept certain texts and to reject others. And as they circulate through different domains, films constitute a range of aesthetic objects and practices competing for status."

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