Joëlle Farchy defines cultural exception

Joëlle Farchy, professor of information and communication at the Sorbonne, ponders the notion of cultural exception. "Cultural exception, in reality, is not the French exception; it is culture in relation to other products, not the singularity of France. Cultural goods are 'exceptional', firstly because these have intrinsic characteristics which render them vulnerable to market forces: high fixed prices are applied to the production of prototypes that are dependant on the considerable liabilities of success or failure; they are above all 'exceptional' products because they are the expression of an artist's view on the world as well as of the values of the community he or she belongs to."

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