This collection of essays, written by international film and television scholars, provides detailed critical analysis of the issues surrounding judgements of cultural value and taste, feeling and affect, cultural morals and politics, research methodologies and teaching strategies in the new landscape of 'after taste' media. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.

Introduction: After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image Part I. Critical Methods 1. 'An idleness bordering on the wacky': Paul Cox and the contradictions of an Australian art cinema 2. Hollywood: Bad cinema's bad 'other' 3. Cultural value and viscerality in Sukiyaki Western Django: Towards a phenomenology of bad film 4. S. Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico! through time - historicising value judgement Part II. Taste and Value 5. Transitional tastes: Teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight 6. 'Flesh dissolved in an acid of light': the B-movie as second sight 7. B for Bruckheimer: The authorial value of 'Jerry Bruckheimer Television' 8. Blowing Chunks: Fear Factor, reality television and abjection as a disciplinary practice Part III. Feeling and Affect 9. Labours of Love: Home movies, paracinema, and the modern work of cinema spectatorship 10. Dead time: Cinema, Heidegger, and boredom Part IV. Teaching Bad Objects Forum 11. Teaching Bad Objects: Introduction 12. The State of the Discipline: Film Studies as bad object 13. Beyond good/should/bad: Teaching Australian Indigenous film and television 14. Teaching Australian television studies

Julia Vassilieva teaches Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is an author of Re-thinking the Experience of Immigration: From Loss to Gain (2010). She has published articles in a variety of journals, including Film-Philosophy, Senses of Cinema, Rouge, Cinema Studies, The New International Journal of Humanities and contributed as an editor to Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research.

Constantine Verevis is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Film Remakes (2006) and co-editor of Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (2010). He is presently co-editing two further volumes: Film Trilogies (with Claire Perkins) and Remake-Remodel (with Kathleen Loock).