TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Kirsten
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture 
T2  - Framing Film Festivals
SN  - 9781137581303 (ebook:PDF)
U1  - 791.43099 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint)
KW  - Australasian Cinema and TV
KW  - Australasian Culture
N1  - List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.Enthusiastic Amateurs: Origins of Australia's film festival movement -- 2.Growth and Change: Curator-led festivals, fragmenting audiences and shifting film exhibition cultures -- 3. From Film Weeks to Festivals: The spread of the urban film festival after 1980 -- 4. Between Success and Failure: Crisis and recovery at the Melbourne International Film Festival -- 5. Programming Perceptions: Film festivals and the construction of taste -- 6. A Festival for Every Occasion: Niche programming, event culture and vertically integrated film festivals -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Early Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival programs -- Appendix 2: Summary of film exhibition and film culture activities, 1949-1990 -- Appendix 3: Film Festivals in Melbourne, 1949-2000 -- Appendix 4: Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals -- Archives and Research Collections -- Bibliography
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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58130-3
ER  -