Australian Film Festivals
Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
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
Autor*in
Kirsten Stevens
Themen in »Australian Film Festivals«
Australian cinema arts culture exhibition film film and television film and television studies film audiences film culture film festivals film history history individual media media studies