Australian Film Festivals

Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture

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by Kirsten Stevens

Type: Stories
Subject: Festivals
Keywords: Australia, festival
Publishing date: 2016
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Collection: Framing Film Festivals
Language: English

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Hardcover • 281 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-58637-7

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Book Presentation:
This is thefirst 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.

About the Author:
Kirsten Stevens is Teaching Associate in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia.

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