Description
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.
About the Author
Kirsten Stevens is Teaching Associate in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia.
Book Information
ISBN 9781137586377
Author Kirsten Stevens
Format Hardback
Page Count 270
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Series Framing Film Festivals