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Klappentext This book presents examines the role and importance of fairs, festivals and competitive events in the creative industries. Zusammenfassung Fairs! festivals and competitive events play a crucial role in the creative industries; yet their significance has been largely overlooked. This book explores the role of such events through a series of studies that include some of the most iconic fairs and festivals in the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen; 1. A salon's life: field configuring event, power and contestation in a creative field Hélène Delacour and Bernard Leca; 2. Art fairs: the market as medium Don Thompson; 3. Biennalization and its discontents Jeannine Tang; 4. Staging auctions: enabling exchange values to be contested and established Charles W. Smith; 5. The book fair as a tournament of values Brian Moeran; 6. Inventing universal television: restricted access, promotional extravagance, and the distribution of value at global television markets Timothy Havens; 7. Transforming film product identities: the status effects of European premier film festivals, 1996-2005 Stephen Mezias, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, Ji-Hyun Kim, Silviya Svejenova and Carmelo Mazza; 8. Field-configuring events: institutionalization and maintenance in an animation film festival Charles-Clemens Rüling; 9. Tradition and transformation at the Fan Fair Festival Jennifer C. Lena; 10. Between art and commerce: London Fashion Week as trade fair and fashion spectacle Joanne Entwistle and Agnès Rocamora; 11. Configuring sustainability at Fashion Week Lise Skov and Janne Meier; 12. An inconvenient truce: cultural production and contention after the 1855 Medoc wine classification event Grégoire Croidieu; 13. The retrospective use of tournament rituals in field configuration: the case of the 1976 'Judgement of Paris' wine tasting Narasimhan Anand; Afterword: converting values into other values: fairs and festivals as resource valuation and trading events Joseph Lampel; Index....
