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Film Festivals : History, Theory, Method, Practice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2007Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317267201
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43074
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Foreword: the film festival and film culture's transnational essence -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: what is a film festival? How to study festivals and why you should -- Part I History -- Introduction -- 1 Making film history at the Cannes film festival -- 2 Film festivals in Asia: notes on history, geography, and power from a distance -- 3 The film festival circuit: networks, hierarchies, and circulation -- Part II Theory -- Introduction -- 4 Contingency, time, and event: an archaeological approach to the film festival -- 5 Publics and counterpublics: rethinking film festivals as public spheres -- 6 Fostering art, adding value, cultivating taste: film festivals as sites of cultural legitimization -- Part III Method -- Introduction -- 7 Being there, taking place: ethnography at the film festival -- 8 On studying film festival ephemera: the case of queer film festivals and archives of feelings -- 9 Positionality and film festival research: a conversation -- Part IV Practice -- Introduction -- 10 Seeing differently: the curatorial potential of film festival programming -- 11 Affective labor and the work of film festival programming -- 12 The "festival film": film festival funds as cultural intermediaries -- Index.
Summary: This text offers a systematic and authoritative introduction to the subject of film festivals. Individual essays are organized into coherent sections on the history, theory, method, and practice of film festival studies. Providing students with a solid overview of the study of film festivals; it begins with the emergence of the major 'A' list film festivals in Europe, before going on to discuss the key theoretical frameworks for understanding film festivals, exploring the methods of ethnographic and archival research, and then looking more closely at the dynamics of prominent festival practices. It is ideal for students preparing to design and conduct their own research on a film festivals.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Foreword: the film festival and film culture's transnational essence -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: what is a film festival? How to study festivals and why you should -- Part I History -- Introduction -- 1 Making film history at the Cannes film festival -- 2 Film festivals in Asia: notes on history, geography, and power from a distance -- 3 The film festival circuit: networks, hierarchies, and circulation -- Part II Theory -- Introduction -- 4 Contingency, time, and event: an archaeological approach to the film festival -- 5 Publics and counterpublics: rethinking film festivals as public spheres -- 6 Fostering art, adding value, cultivating taste: film festivals as sites of cultural legitimization -- Part III Method -- Introduction -- 7 Being there, taking place: ethnography at the film festival -- 8 On studying film festival ephemera: the case of queer film festivals and archives of feelings -- 9 Positionality and film festival research: a conversation -- Part IV Practice -- Introduction -- 10 Seeing differently: the curatorial potential of film festival programming -- 11 Affective labor and the work of film festival programming -- 12 The "festival film": film festival funds as cultural intermediaries -- Index.

This text offers a systematic and authoritative introduction to the subject of film festivals. Individual essays are organized into coherent sections on the history, theory, method, and practice of film festival studies. Providing students with a solid overview of the study of film festivals; it begins with the emergence of the major 'A' list film festivals in Europe, before going on to discuss the key theoretical frameworks for understanding film festivals, exploring the methods of ethnographic and archival research, and then looking more closely at the dynamics of prominent festival practices. It is ideal for students preparing to design and conduct their own research on a film festivals.

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