Film Festivals

Reviews / Votes

"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