Chapter 1 Introduction: Valuing Films

Chapter 2 Use and Exchange: The Politics of Film Evaluation

Chapter 3 Sense and Sensibilities: The Value of Coherence in the Contemporary Twist Film

Chapter 4 Spectacle and Value in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Chapter 5 Getting Animated — Valuing Anime

Chapter 6 Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Subcultural Politics of an Unwanted Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers

Chapter 7 ¡Que Naco! Mexican Popular Cinema, La Banda del Carro Rojo and the Audience

Chapter 9 Valuing Film Violence: Student Perceptions on the Inclusion of Violent Films and Film Violence within the Undergraduate Learning Experience

Chapter 10 ‘The Many Ways of Looking at Cinema’: Sight and Sound and the Value of Film

Chapter 11 Delivering the Quality Experience: Franco Zeffirelli

Chapter 12 A Taste for Flesh and Blood? Shifting Classifications of Contemporary European Cinema

Chapter 13 Shifting Perceptions of Worth