Article
French
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Abstract
`titrebIndependence as Position, Virtue and Strategy. Observation of a Parisian Movie Theater's Programming`/titrebThis article aims at analyzing the elaboration of an independent position on the movie exhibition market through a focus on the activity of a Parisian movie theater's programmer. This observation reveals the practical criteria for programming and makes it possible to go beyond indigenous rationales (the programmer's tastes), or institutional ones (the Art et essai label's criteria grid), without rushing to oversimplified conclusions, which would reduce the independent programmer's rationality to commercial motives. The programmer appears as the epitome of the independent agents who face tensions and power struggles on the markets for cultural goods.