TY - BOOK
T1 - Australian Film Festivals
T2 - Audience, Place and Exhibition Culture
AU - Stevens, Kirsten
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Australasian Cinema
KW - Australasian Culture
KW - Film History
KW - Media and Communication
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-58130-3
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-58130-3
M3 - Book
SN - 9781137586377
T3 - Framing Film Festivals
BT - Australian Film Festivals
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - New York NY USA
ER -