'And the winner is ...': What happens behind the scenes of film festival competitions

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 290-307

  de Valck, Marijke ^a   Soeteman, Mimi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Awards; Cultural capital; Film competitions; Film festivals; Juries; Prestige; Prizes; Selection systems; Value addition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952304506     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: 1460356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367877909359735     Document Type: Article

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