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The economy of prestige : prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value
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The economy of prestige : prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value

Author: James F English
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James F English
ISBN: 0674018842 9780674018846
OCLC Number: 60776857
Description: xii, 409 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: James F. English.

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