Overview

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increasingly prominent phenomenon from both historical and contemporary perspectives, using diverse methods including archival research, interviews and surveys and drawing widely from fields like sociology, urban studies and film criticism to patent technology and history. With contributors from across the world and covering the major festivals - Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin - as well as niche, genre and online film festivals, this book is an authoritative and exemplary guide to the evolution of these key sites for film distribution, exhibition and reception. Chapters unravel topics such as the relationship between corporations and festivals, the soft power function they can perform for their host nations and the changing identities of audiences on arrival at, and during exploration of, a given festival venue. Tricia Jenkins' edited volume reconceives the film festival for the global, digital age whilst drawing out its historic importance and ultimately makes a major intervention in film festival studies as well as film and cultural studies more widely.

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Author:   Tricia Jenkins (Texas Christian University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780755607327

ISBN 10:   0755607325
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations About the Contributors Introduction Section I. (Re) Conceptualizing the Film Festival: Contemporary Practices 1. “You Had to Be There:” Film Festival “Liveness” and the Digitally Connected Audience 2. New Perspectives for Online Film Festivals 3. The Fully Clickable Situation: From Tyranny to Monopoly to a Filmfreeway 4. Constructing Film Festival Audiences: Performative Practices and Material Conditions 5. Genre Film Festivals and Rethinking the Definition of “The Festival Film” Section II. (Re) Assessing the Past: Historical Approaches to the Film Festival 6. A Transnational Love–Hate Relationship: The FIAPF and the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals (1950–1970) 7. Screens for Historical Awareness: Festivals and the Patrimonialization of Film Art in France before 1968 8. Queer Capital, Queer Culture: Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals in the 1990s 9. Visible Art, Invisible Nations? On the Politics of Film Festivals, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Taiwan New Cinema 10. The Urban and Cultural Functions of the Gdynia Film Festival Section III. with Festival Insiders 11. Building IFF Panama from the Ground Up: An Interview with Executive Director Pituka Ortega-Heilbron and Artistic Director Diana Sánchez 12. Perspectives from a Mexican Newcomer: An Interview with Daniela Michel and Chloë Roddick of the Morelia International Film Festival Bibliography

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Tricia Jenkins is Associate Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University, USA, where she teaches classes on film festivals and media studies. She has participated in the American Pavilion Program at the Cannes International Film Festival and serves the Hill Country Film Festival and the Lone Star Film Festival as a film panel moderator and social media marketer. She is also the Book Reviews editor of The Journal of Popular Culture, the author of The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television (2016), as well as numerous other peer-reviewed articles on film and television.

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