Overview
- The first book to approach documentary film festivals from a global, historical and multi-disciplinary perspective
- Approaches key challenges for festival organization, framed in key topics in current media studies (transmediality, industrial aspects and dynamics of production and distribution, curatorial practices, cross-genre hybridization, articulation of new socio-political spheres and movements, etc.)
Part of the book series: Framing Film Festivals (FFF)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Histories and Origins
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Politics and Policies
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors from across the globe offer in-depth analysis of both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including Hot Docs (Canada), Nyon (Switcherland), Yamagata (Japan), DocChina, Full Frame (US), Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Vikalp (India), and DocsBarcelona (Catalonia, Spain), among others. With a special focus on historical and political developments, this first volume draws a map of documentary festivals operating today, and then looks at their origins and evolution.
This volume is organized in three sections: the first addresses methodological problems film historians and social scientists face when researching documentary film festivals, the second looks at the historical development of this circuit within the wider frame of history of world and national cinemas, and the third reflects on how politics find their way through festival programs and actions. Curatorial, organizational, industrial and political changes occurred in the festival realm addressed in this book help better understand how these affected documentary production, distribution, curation, exhibition and reception up to this day.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Aida Vallejo is Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.
Ezra Winton is a Visiting Scholar at the ReImagining Value Action Lab at Lakehead University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1
Book Subtitle: Methods, History, Politics
Editors: Aida Vallejo, Ezra Winton
Series Title: Framing Film Festivals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17320-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17319-7Published: 29 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17322-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17320-3Published: 28 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3734
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3742
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 296
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global Cinema and TV, Documentary, Film/TV Industry, Global/International Culture