Through 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 Bourdieu's 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 photography to constantly evolving mobile technologies, this collection demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu's key concepts hold for the field of media studies, deploying them as powerful tools of analysis and forging new avenues of inquiry in the process.

Guy Austin is Professor of French Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Contemporary French Cinema (1996/2008), Claude Chabrol (1999), Stars in Modern French Film (2003) and Algerian National Cinema (2012), as well as articles on French and Algerian cinema for various journals.

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Introduction: Bourdieu on Media and Film

Chapter 1. Bourdieu, Field of Cultural Production and Cinema: Illumination and Blindspots
Bridget Fowler

Chapter 2. Bourdieu and Film Studies: Beyond the Taste Agenda
Chris Cagle

Chapter 3. Bourdieu and Images of Algerian Women's Emotional Habitus
Sophie Belot

Chapter 4. The Taste Database: Taste Distinctions in Online Film
Eileen Culloty

Chapter 5. Millennials Protest: Hipsters, Privilege, and Homological Obstruction
Anthony P. McIntyre

Chapter 6. A Bourdieuan Approach to Internet Studies: Rethinking Digital Practice
Richenda Herzig

Chapter 7. Obtain and Deploy: Mobile Media Technologies as Tools for Distinction and Capital
Justin Battin

Chapter 8. Weak (Cultural) Field: A Bourdieuian Approach to Social Media
Antonio Di Stefano

Index