Film Festivals (eBook, ePUB)

History, Theory, Method, Practice
Redaktion: De Valck, Marijke; Loist, Skadi; Kredell, Brendan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317267201
• Artikelnr.: 44862807

Autorenporträt

Marijke de Valck is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She is a well-known specialist of film festival studies and author of Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (2007). She co-founded the Film Festival Research Network and is co-editor of the book series Framing Film Festivals . Brendan Kredell is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oakland University. His research focuses on media and urban studies, an area in which he has published widely. He received a Fulbright fellowship for his work on culture-led urban redevelopment and the Toronto International Film Festival. Skadi Loist is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media Research of the University of Rostock. She co-founded the Film Festival Research Network and serves as member of the Steering Committee of NECS. Her research interests include film festivals, queer cinema and media industries. She has worked with the Hamburg International Queer Film Festival since 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

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