Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place and Exhibition Culture

Kirsten Stevens

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-58130-3

Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place and Exhibition Culture

Kirsten Stevens

Film & Screen Studies

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	270
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137581303
ISBN (Print)	9781137586377
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58130-3
Publication status	Published - 2016

Publication series

Name	Framing Film Festivals
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan

Keywords

Australasian Cinema
Australasian Culture
Film History
Media and Communication

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