New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies Cahal McLaughlin

New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies Cahal McLaughlinThrough 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 Bourdieus 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

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