Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Breaking with the aura? : film as object or experience -- 2. Spatial effects : film cultures and sites of exhibition -- 3. Film festivals : media events and spaces of flow -- 4. Marketing films and audiences -- 5. Postmodern praxes : production on the national and global stage -- 6. Aesthetic encounters -- 7. Digitalization and its discontents -- References -- Index
Questioning how film connects us to social status, and national and global affiliations, this book argues that our tastes for film connect us to social, spatial and temporal networks of exchange and meaning.