Title The economy of prestige : prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value / James F. English.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 409 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-390) and index.
Contents	The age of award -- Prize frenzy -- Precursors of the modern cultural prize -- The logic of proliferation -- Prizes as entertainment -- Peculiarities of the awards industry -- The making of a prize -- Taste management -- Trophies as objects of production and trade -- The game and its players -- Scandalous currency -- The new rhetoric of prize commentary -- Strategies of condescension, styles of play -- The global economy of cultural prestige -- The arts as international sport -- The new geography of prestige -- Prizes and the politics of world culture -- Appendix A. The rise of the prize -- Appendix B. Prizes and commerce -- Appendix C. Winner take all: six lists.
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Subject	Awards -- Economic aspects.
	Awards.
	Literary prizes -- Economic aspects.
	Literary prizes.
	Art -- Awards -- Economic aspects.
	Art -- Awards -- Economic aspects.
	Culture -- Economic aspects.
	Culture -- Economic aspects.
	Intellectual life -- Economic aspects.
	Intellectual life -- Economic aspects.
	Intellectual life.
	Popular culture -- Economic aspects.
	Popular culture -- Economic aspects.
	Cultural industries -- Economic aspects.
	Cultural industries.
	Value.
	Value.
	Prestige.
	Prestige.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: English, James F., 1958- Economy of prestige. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005 0674018842 9780674018846 (DLC) 2005050273 (OCoLC)60776857
ISBN	9780674036536 (electronic book)
	0674036530 (electronic book)
	9780674030435 (paperback)
	0674018842 (paperback)
	9780674018846 (cloth)
	0674030435 (cloth)

Title The economy of prestige : prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value / James F. English.

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