Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture (Framing Film Festivals)

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.

• | Author: Kirsten Stevens
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 10, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 281 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1137586370
• | ISBN-13: 9781137586377