Accounting for taste: Film criticism, canons, and cultural authority 1996–2006

This dissertation examines the space of U.S. film criticism between 1996 and 2006 and the effects of shifting taste hierarchies and diffusion of cultural authority of critics during this time. I argue that the taste hierarchies which marked much of U.S. culture in the twentieth century - such as hig...

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Main Author: Lupo, Jonathan D
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2007
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3289224