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Film Festival Ephemera: The Case of Queer Film Festivals and. Archives of Feelings; Ger Zielinski 9 Positionality and Film. Festival Research: A Conversation; ...
Film Festivals History, Theory, Method, Practice Edited by Marijke de Valck, Utrecht University, Netherlands, Brendan Kredell, Oakland University, USA and Skadi Loist, University of Rostock, Germany

March 2016: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-71246-0 | $140.00 Pb: 978-0-415-71247-7 | $39.95 eBook: 978-1-315-63716-7

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface; The Film Festival and Film Culture’s Transnational Essence; Dina Iordanova ; Introduction; What is a Film Festival? How to Study Festivals and Why You Should; Marijke de Valck ; Part I; History Introduction ; Brendan Kredell 1 Making Film History at the Cannes film festival; Dorota Ostrowska 2 Film Festivals in Asia: Notes on History, Geography and Power from a Distance; Julian Stringer 3 The Film Festival Circuit: Networks, Hierarchies, and Circulation; Skadi Loist ; Part II; Theory Introduction ; Marijke de Valck 4 Contingency, Time and Event: An Archaeological Approach to the Film Festival; Janet Harbord; 5 Publics and Counterpublics: Rethinking Film Festivals as Public Spheres; Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong ; 6 Fostering Art, Adding Value, Cultivating Taste: Film Festivals as Sites of Cultural Legitimization; Marijke de Valck ; Part III; Method; Introduction ; Skadi Loist 7 Being There, Taking Place: Ethnography at the Film Festival; Toby Lee ; 8 On Studying Film Festival Ephemera: The Case of Queer Film Festivals and Archives of Feelings; Ger Zielinski 9 Positionality and Film Festival Research: A Conversation; Diane Burgess and Brendan Kredell ; Part IV; Practice Introduction ; Brendan Kredell 10 Seeing Differently: The Curatorial Potential of Film Festival Programming; Roya Rastegar 11 Affective Labor and the Work of Film Festival Programming; Liz Czach 12 "The Festival Film": Film Festival Funds as Cultural Intermediaries; Tamara L. Falicov

This text offers a systematic and authoritative introduction to the subject of film festivals. Individual essays are organized into coherent sections on the history, theory, method, and practice of film festival studies. Providing students with a solid overview of the study of film festivals; it begins with the emergence of the major ‘A’ list film festivals in Europe, before going on to discuss the key theoretical frameworks for understanding film festivals, exploring the methods of ethnographic and archival research, and then looking more closely at the dynamics of prominent festival practices. It is ideal for students preparing to design and conduct their own research on a film festivals. 20% Discount Available - enter the code FLR40 at checkout* Hb: 978-0-415-71246-0 | $112.00 Pb: 978-0-415-71247-7 | $31.96 * Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via our website. "Bringing together leading film festivals scholars, this book is a welcome and much needed addition both to the growing field of festival studies, and world cinema more generally. Festivals, no doubt, offer the most fruitful ground on which to investigate the transnational dynamic of cinema, but they are a complex phenomenon and anything but easy to study. Because they present such a dizzying convergence of numerous elements—cinephilia, tourism, art, business, geopolitics—they have escaped the traditional, rather limited frameworks in film studies. This volume brings these diverse dimensions together in a systematic method, offering productive theoretical and practical tools with which to address both the specificity of particular festivals and their embeddedness in a larger festival and cultural network." Meta Mazaj, Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania

"For any scholar interested in the part played by film festivals in the emerging study of transnational film culture this excellent collection provides a comprehensive and vital starting point." Gareth Stanton, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

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