Overview
- 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
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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
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