Author : Kirsten Stevens
Release : 2016-11-10
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Australian Film Festivals by : Kirsten Stevens
Download or read book Australian Film Festivals written by Kirsten Stevens. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
