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.
Edited by:
Tricia Jenkins (Texas Christian University USA)
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 50
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9781788310901
ISBN 10: 178831090X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
Reviews for International Film Festivals: Contemporary Cultures and History Beyond Venice and Cannes
`Film festival studies lies at the vital centre of cinema and media scholarship. The contributors to this exciting collection set sail for unchartered waters, discovering new islands along the way.' - Julian Stringer, Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham, `Tricia Jenkins's edited volume International Film Festivals is an insightful and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of film festival studies. Revisiting and rethinking various concepts fundamental to festival studies-from festival as an event to festival audiences and online festivals-this volume will be key to anyone interested in the role of international film festivals in shaping contemporary film and media cultures.' - Meta Mazaj, Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania
