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Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1

Methods, History, Politics

Palgrave Macmillan
  • The first book to approach documentary film festivals from a global, historical and multi-disciplinary perspective
  • Approaches key challenges for festival organization, framed in key topics in current media studies (transmediality, industrial aspects and dynamics of production and distribution, curatorial practices, cross-genre hybridization, articulation of new socio-political spheres and movements, etc.)

Part of the book series: Framing Film Festivals (FFF)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Politics and Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
    2. Found in Translation: Film Festivals, Documentary and the Preservation of Linguistic Diversity

      • Antía López-Gómez, Aida Vallejo, Mª Soliñ Barreiro, Amanda Alencar
      Pages 241-263
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 265-296

About this book

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors from across the globe offer in-depth analysis of both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including Hot Docs (Canada), Nyon (Switcherland), Yamagata (Japan), DocChina, Full Frame (US), Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Vikalp (India), and DocsBarcelona (Catalonia, Spain), among others. With a special focus on historical and political developments, this first volume draws a map of documentary festivals operating today, and then looks at their origins and evolution.

This volume is organized in three sections: the first addresses methodological problems film historians and social scientists face when researching documentary film festivals, the second looks at the historical development of this circuit within the wider frame of history of world and national cinemas, and the third reflects on how politics find their way through festival programs and actions. Curatorial, organizational, industrial and political changes occurred in the festival realm addressed in this book help better understand how these affected documentary production, distribution, curation, exhibition and reception up to this day.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain

    Aida Vallejo

  • ReImagining Value Action Lab Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

    Ezra Winton

About the editors

Aida Vallejo is Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.

Ezra Winton is a Visiting Scholar at the ReImagining Value Action Lab at Lakehead University, Canada.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1

  • Book Subtitle: Methods, History, Politics

  • Editors: Aida Vallejo, Ezra Winton

  • Series Title: Framing Film Festivals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17320-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17319-7Published: 29 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17322-7Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17320-3Published: 28 May 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2946-3734

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-3742

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 296

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Global Cinema and TV, Documentary, Film/TV Industry, Global/International Culture

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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