Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture

ISBN-13: 9781137586377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 270 str.

Kirsten Stevens

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Enthusiastic Amateurs: Origins of Australia’s film festival movement

2. Growth and Change: Curator-led festivals, fragmenting audiences and shifting film exhibition cultures

3. From Film Weeks to Festivals: The spread of the urban film festival after 1980

4. Between Success and Failure: Crisis and recovery at the Melbourne International Film Festival

5. Programming Perceptions: Film festivals and the construction of taste

6. A Festival for Every Occasion: Niche programming, event culture and vertically integrated film festivals

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Early Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival programs

Appendix 2: Summary of film exhibition and film culture activities, 1949-1990

Appendix 3: Film Festivals in Melbourne, 1949-2000

Appendix 4: Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals

Archives and Research Collections

Bibliography

O autorze

Kirsten Stevens is Teaching Associate in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia.