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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bringing together leading film festivals scholars, this book is a welcome and much needed addition both to the growing field of festival studies, and world cinema more generally. Festivals, no doubt, offer the most fruitful ground on which to investigate the transnational dynamic of cinema, but they are a complex phenomenon and anything but easy to study. Because they present such a dizzying convergence of numerous elements—cinephilia, tourism, art, business, geopolitics—they have escaped the traditional, rather limited frameworks in film studies. This volume brings these diverse dimensions together in a systematic method, offering productive theoretical and practical tools with which to address both the specificity of particular festivals and their embeddedness in a larger festival and cultural network."
-Meta Mazaj, Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania
"For any scholar interested in the part played by film festivals in the emerging study of transnational film culture this excellent collection provides a comprehensive and vital starting point."
- Gareth Stanton, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
"... the present volume treats film festivals theoretically and comparatively, considering them as networked sites that negotiate cultural capital on local, national, and global scales. Contributors include many of the key researchers in the field, among them Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong, author of the terrific Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen (2011). Valck includes in this skillfully edited collection essays not only on Cannes and Asian film festivals but also on “identity-based community festivals." ... this book is required reading for anyone interested in the subject."
- S. C. Dillon, Bates College
Table of ContentsPreface
The Film Festival and Film Culture’s Transnational Essence
Dina Iordanova
Introduction
What is a Film Festival? How to Study Festivals and Why You Should
Marijke de Valck
Part I
History
Introduction
Brendan Kredell
1 Making Film History at the Cannes film festival
Dorota Ostrowska
2 Film Festivals in Asia: Notes on History, Geography and Power from a Distance
Julian Stringer
3 The Film Festival Circuit: Networks, Hierarchies, and Circulation
Skadi Loist
Part II
Theory
Introduction
Marijke de Valck
4 Contingency, Time and Event: An Archaeological Approach to the Film Festival
Janet Harbord
5 Publics and Counterpublics: Rethinking Film Festivals as Public Spheres
Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong
6 Fostering Art, Adding Value, Cultivating Taste: Film Festivals as Sites of Cultural Legitimization
Marijke de Valck
Part III
Method
Introduction
Skadi Loist
7 Being There, Taking Place: Ethnography at the Film Festival
Toby Lee
8 On Studying Film Festival Ephemera: The Case of Queer Film Festivals and Archives of Feelings
Ger Zielinski
9 Positionality and Film Festival Research: A Conversation
Diane Burgess and Brendan Kredell
Part IV
Practice
Introduction
Brendan Kredell
10 Seeing Differently: The Curatorial Potential of Film Festival Programming
Roya Rastegar
11 Affective Labor and the Work of Film Festival Programming
Liz Czach
12 "The Festival Film": Film Festival Funds as Cultural Intermediaries
Tamara L. Falicov
