| Description |
xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Framing film festivals |
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Framing film festivals
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Enthusiastic Amateurs: Origins of Australia's Film Festival Movement -- 3. Growth and Change: Curator-Led Festivals, Fragmenting Audiences and Shifting Film Exhibition Cultures -- 4. From Film Weeks to Festivals: The Spread of the Urban Film Festival After 1980 -- 5. Between Success and Failure: Crisis and Recovery at the Melbourne International Film Festival -- 6. Programming Perceptions: Film Festivals and the Construction of Raste -- 7. A Festival for Every Occasion: Niche Programming. Event Culture and Vertically Integrated Film Festivals -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Early Features of Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival Programmes (1852-1965) -- Appendix 2. Summary of Select film Cuture and Festival Activities, 1960s-1970s -- Appendix 3. Selective List of Film Events in Melbourne, 1949-2000 -- Appendix 4. Film Festivals in Melbourne and Sydney, 2015 |
| Summary |
This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film festivals have prospered as audience-driven spectacles throughout Australia, while never developing the same industry and market foci of their international fellows. Drawing on over sixty-years of archival records, festival commentary, interviews with festival insiders and ephemera, this book opens up a largely uncharted history of film culture activity in Australia. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index |
| Subject |
Film festivals -- Australia
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Film festivals -- Australia -- History
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Motion pictures -- Australia
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2016957283 |
| ISBN |
9781137586377 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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1137586370 (hardcover) |
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