TY  - BOOK
AU  - Driscoll, E
AU  - Squires, C
Y2  - 2020/12/01
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 9781108933377
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/252721
AB  - The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this book, 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 book 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 book are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
T1  - The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business
DO  - 10.1017/9781108933377
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/252721/The%20Frankfurt%20Book%20Fair%20and%20the%20Bestseller%20Business%20SMUR.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
ER  -