Talk:La Distinction

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I'm moving the paragraph about the movie Titanic, because as written, it has little or nothing to do with the book, La Distinction, about which this article is supposed to be written. It may play off some of the ideas Bourdieu wrote about in this book, but it is not clear how and examples from the book itself would be far more appropriate. One should not illustrate the main idea of a book by using an example from a book published forty years later that may or may not cite the original.


Example: Titanic (1997) La Distinction has influenced academics working in different disciplines. For example, one can explain the negative reputation of the film Titanic (1997, Cameron) as a backlash from the film's own popularity and from its position within popular culture. In his British Film Institute monograph, David Lubin compares attitudes against the film directly to the main thesis of La Distinction. He suggests that derisory attitudes towards the film exhibit a desire to disassociate the critic from fanatics who reportedly attended multiple screenings, and from coverage in tabloids and teen magazines focusing on the two main stars.

Dwinetsk 07:03, 9 June 2007 (UTC)