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The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Autor Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2020
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017–2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The Element argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the Element are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108928106
ISBN-10: 1108928102
Pagini: 75
Ilustrații: Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensiuni: 125 x 180 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction – Flight Paths; 1. Book Buzz; 2. Big, Small, Nowhere at All; 3. Carnivalesque; Conclusion – The Broom of History.

Recenzii

'The Frankfurt Book Fair is surely the most inventive of such postcritical inquiries into the making of culture, a book-about-books that should generate rich insights …' Toby Bennett, Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

Descriere

Explore the production of bestsellers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, through an investigation involving three consecutive years of fieldwork.