Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit (REF: APLG-FFYB09) (St. Andrews Film Studies) [Paperback]

Dina Iordanova (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1906678049 | ISBN-13: 978-1906678043 | Publication Date: September 1, 2009

The first in an annual series, the Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit, published by St Andrews Film Studies in collaboration with College Gate Press, features articles related to the global proliferation of film festivals. This issue focuses on the dynamics of the film festival circuit, including the roles of individual festivals as nodes on this complex network and the cultural policies that shape its channels of film exhibition and distribution. This inaugural volume includes essays by Dina Iordanova, Ragan Rhyne, Janet Harbord, Charles-Clemens Ruling, Rahul Hamid, Kay Armatage, Ruby Cheung, Ma Ran, David Slocum, Mark Cousins, Nick Roddick, Dimitris Kerkinos, Marijke de Valck & Skadi Loist, and William Brown.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Film Festival Yearbook is the first major academic anthology devoted to a new field within cinema studies. The book is fascinating, and useful for demonstrating that the study of film festivals can help to augment and amplify ongoing areas of research within film history and theory, in clarifying the relationship of film festivals to a host of interdisciplinary concerns. The anthology weaves together a tapestry of viewpoints from both academics and professionals and the reader can choose to either take sides or weigh the contradictions judiciously. --Richard Porton - Editor, Cineaste, USA

Film festivals have long been a mainstay for a diverse, dynamic world cinema connected to eager and responsive audiences. In a digital age, the attractions of liveness continue to flourish, and film festivals provide intense, communal experiences valued by a growing numbers of cineastes. This volume opens up a field in the institutionalist approach to cinema studies that has been neglected for too long. --Stuart Cunningham - Director, Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

About the Author

Dina Iordanova is Professor of Film Studies and Director of the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She is interested in the workings of the international film industry and leads The Leverhulme Trust-sponsored project of Dynamics of World Cinema. In 2008, she edited a special festivals issue for Film International (2008), where she also writes a special festival column. She organised the International Film Festivals Workshop (2009) and launched the Film Festival Yearbook series, which will explore various aspects of film festivals in dedicated volumes. Ragan Rhyne is Research Associate at the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews on the Dynamics of World Cinema project. Her work has been published in GLQ, Velvet Light Trap, and the Journal of Homosexuality.

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: St Andrews Film Studies (with College Gate Press) (September 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906678049
• ISBN-13: 978-1906678043
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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