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- Examines the Australian response to and engagement with film festivals beyond models set by Europe and North America
- Traces the history, proliferation, and current practice of film festivals in Australia
- Explores Australia’s audience-focused practice in relation to the global film festival operation
Part of the book series: Framing Film Festivals (FFF)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Monash University, Caulfield East, Australia
Kirsten Stevens
About the author
Kirsten Stevens is Teaching Associate in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Australian Film Festivals
Book Subtitle: Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture
Authors: Kirsten Stevens
Series Title: Framing Film Festivals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58130-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58637-7Published: 10 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58130-3Published: 10 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3734
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3742
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 270
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Australasian Cinema and TV, Australasian Culture, Film History, Media and Communication