| Description |
1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
International library of the moving image ; 50 |
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International library of the moving image ; 50.
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| Contents |
"You had to be there:" film festival "liveness" and the digitally connected audience -- New perspectives for online film festivals -- The fully clickable situation : from tyranny to monopoly to a filmfreeway -- Constructing film festival audiences : performative practices and material conditions -- Genre film festivals and rethinking the definition of "The Festival Film" -- A transnational love-hate relationship : the FIAPF and the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals (1950-1970) -- Screens for historical awareness : festivals and the patrimonialization of Film Art in France before 1968 -- Queer capital, queer culture : gay and lesbian film festivals in the 1990s -- Visible art, invisible nations? On the politics of film festivals, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Taiwan new cinema -- The urban and cultural functions of the Gdynia Film Festival -- Building IFF Panama from the ground up : an interview with Executive Director Pituka Ortega-Heilbron and Artistic Director Diana Sánchez -- Perspectives from a Mexican newcomer : an interview with Daniela Michel and Chloë Roddick of the Morelia International Film Festival |
| Summary |
More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increasingly prominent phenomenon from both historical and contemporary perspectives, using diverse methods including archival research, interviews and surveys and drawing widely from fields like sociology, urban studies and film criticism to patent technology and history. With contributors from across the world and covering the major festivals - Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin - as well as niche, genre and online film festivals, this book is an authoritative and exemplary guide to the evolution of these key sites for film distribution, exhibition and reception. Chapters unravel topics such as the relationship between corporations and festivals, the soft power function they can perform for their host nations and the changing identities of audiences on arrival at, and during exploration of, a given festival venue. Tricia Jenkins' edited volume reconceives the film festival for the global, digital age whilst drawing out its historic importance and ultimately makes a major intervention in film festival studies as well as film and cultural studies more widely.-- Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-270) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Film festivals.
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film festivals.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Film festivals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jenkins, Tricia, editor
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| ISBN |
9781786724694 |
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1786724693 |
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9781786734693 |
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1786734699 |
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