Review of the hardback: 'Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen have assembled a world class group of experts in the field of creative industries. The chapters in this book present a fascinating range of conceptual and empirical perspectives on the emerging phenomenon of cultural fairs, festivals and arts competitions. This outstanding book should be required reading for anyone interested in the intersection of cultural and economic institutions in contemporary society.' Roy Suddaby, Geddes Professor of Business, University of Alberta

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen; 1. A salon's life: field configuring event, power and contestation in a creative field Hélène Delacour and Bernard Leca; 2. Art fairs: the market as medium Don Thompson; 3. Biennalization and its discontents Jeannine Tang; 4. Staging auctions: enabling exchange values to be contested and established Charles W. Smith; 5. The book fair as a tournament of values Brian Moeran; 6. Inventing universal television: restricted access, promotional extravagance, and the distribution of value at global television markets Timothy Havens; 7. Transforming film product identities: the status effects of European premier film festivals, 1996–2005 Stephen Mezias, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, Ji-Hyun Kim, Silviya Svejenova and Carmelo Mazza; 8. Field-configuring events: institutionalization and maintenance in an animation film festival Charles-Clemens Rüling; 9. Tradition and transformation at the Fan Fair Festival Jennifer C. Lena; 10. Between art and commerce: London Fashion Week as trade fair and fashion spectacle Joanne Entwistle and Agnès Rocamora; 11. Configuring sustainability at Fashion Week Lise Skov and Janne Meier; 12. An inconvenient truce: cultural production and contention after the 1855 Medoc wine classification event Grégoire Croidieu; 13. The retrospective use of tournament rituals in field configuration: the case of the 1976 'Judgement of Paris' wine tasting Narasimhan Anand; Afterword: converting values into other values: fairs and festivals as resource valuation and trading events Joseph Lampel; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen have assembled a world class group of experts in the field of creative industries. The chapters in this book present a fascinating range of conceptual and empirical perspectives on the emerging phenomenon of cultural fairs, festivals and arts competitions. This outstanding book should be required reading for anyone interested in the intersection of cultural and economic institutions in contemporary society.' Roy Suddaby, Geddes Professor of Business, University of Alberta

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen; 1. A salon's life: field configuring event, power and contestation in a creative field Hélène Delacour and Bernard Leca; 2. Art fairs: the market as medium Don Thompson; 3. Biennalization and its discontents Jeannine Tang; 4. Staging auctions: enabling exchange values to be contested and established Charles W. Smith; 5. The book fair as a tournament of values Brian Moeran; 6. Inventing universal television: restricted access, promotional extravagance, and the distribution of value at global television markets Timothy Havens; 7. Transforming film product identities: the status effects of European premier film festivals, 1996–2005 Stephen Mezias, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, Ji-Hyun Kim, Silviya Svejenova and Carmelo Mazza; 8. Field-configuring events: institutionalization and maintenance in an animation film festival Charles-Clemens Rüling; 9. Tradition and transformation at the Fan Fair Festival Jennifer C. Lena; 10. Between art and commerce: London Fashion Week as trade fair and fashion spectacle Joanne Entwistle and Agnès Rocamora; 11. Configuring sustainability at Fashion Week Lise Skov and Janne Meier; 12. An inconvenient truce: cultural production and contention after the 1855 Medoc wine classification event Grégoire Croidieu; 13. The retrospective use of tournament rituals in field configuration: the case of the 1976 'Judgement of Paris' wine tasting Narasimhan Anand; Afterword: converting values into other values: fairs and festivals as resource valuation and trading events Joseph Lampel; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen have assembled a world class group of experts in the field of creative industries. The chapters in this book present a fascinating range of conceptual and empirical perspectives on the emerging phenomenon of cultural fairs, festivals and arts competitions. This outstanding book should be required reading for anyone interested in the intersection of cultural and economic institutions in contemporary society.' Roy Suddaby, Geddes Professor of Business, University of Alberta

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen; 1. A salon's life: field configuring event, power and contestation in a creative field Hélène Delacour and Bernard Leca; 2. Art fairs: the market as medium Don Thompson; 3. Biennalization and its discontents Jeannine Tang; 4. Staging auctions: enabling exchange values to be contested and established Charles W. Smith; 5. The book fair as a tournament of values Brian Moeran; 6. Inventing universal television: restricted access, promotional extravagance, and the distribution of value at global television markets Timothy Havens; 7. Transforming film product identities: the status effects of European premier film festivals, 1996–2005 Stephen Mezias, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, Ji-Hyun Kim, Silviya Svejenova and Carmelo Mazza; 8. Field-configuring events: institutionalization and maintenance in an animation film festival Charles-Clemens Rüling; 9. Tradition and transformation at the Fan Fair Festival Jennifer C. Lena; 10. Between art and commerce: London Fashion Week as trade fair and fashion spectacle Joanne Entwistle and Agnès Rocamora; 11. Configuring sustainability at Fashion Week Lise Skov and Janne Meier; 12. An inconvenient truce: cultural production and contention after the 1855 Medoc wine classification event Grégoire Croidieu; 13. The retrospective use of tournament rituals in field configuration: the case of the 1976 'Judgement of Paris' wine tasting Narasimhan Anand; Afterword: converting values into other values: fairs and festivals as resource valuation and trading events Joseph Lampel; Index.