Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1

Methods, History, Politics

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Edited by Aida Vallejo and Ezra Winton

Type

Didactic

Subject

Festivals

Keywords

festival, documentary

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Framing Film Festivals

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 321 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-17319-7

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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors from across the globe offer in-depth analysis of both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including Hot Docs (Canada), Nyon (Switcherland), Yamagata (Japan), DocChina, Full Frame (US), Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Vikalp (India), and DocsBarcelona (Catalonia, Spain), among others. With a special focus on historical and political developments, this first volume draws a map of documentary festivals operating today, and then looks at their origins and evolution.
This volume is organized in three sections: the first addresses methodological problems film historians and social scientists face when researching documentary film festivals, the second looks at the historical development of this circuit within the wider frame of history of world and national cinemas, and the third reflects on how politics find their way through festival programs and actions. Curatorial, organizational, industrial and political changes occurred in the festival realm addressed in this book help better understand how these affected documentary production, distribution, curation, exhibition and reception up to this day.

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