The economy of prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value
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Main Author: English, James F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2005
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-390) and index
The age of award -- Prize frenzy -- Precursors of the modern cultural prize -- The logic of proliferation -- Prizes as entertainment -- Peculiarities of the awards industry -- The making of a prize -- Taste management -- Trophies as objects of production and trade -- The game and its players -- Scandalous currency -- The new rhetoric of prize commentary -- Strategies of condescension, styles of play -- The global economy of cultural prestige -- The arts as international sport -- The new geography of prestige -- Prizes and the politics of world culture -- Appendix A. The rise of the prize -- Appendix B. Prizes and commerce -- Appendix C. Winner take all: six lists
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 409 p.)
ISBN:0674036530
9780674036536

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