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OverviewFilm Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema is the first systematic study of the role ideology plays in film festivals’ construction of dominant ideas about art cinema. Film festivals are considered the driving force of the film industry outside Hollywood, disseminating ideals of cinematic art and humanist politics. However, the question of what drives them remains highly contentious. In a rare consideration of the European competitive film festival circuit as a whole, this book analyses the shared economic, geopolitical and cultural histories that characterise ‘European A festivals’. It offers, too, the first extensive analysis of such festivals’ role in the canonisation of select Italian films, from Rome, Open City to The Great Beauty and Gomorrah. The book proposes a new approach to ideology critique, one that enables detailed examination of how film festivals construct ideas about not only contemporary art cinema, but assumptions about gender, race, colonialism and capitalism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel JohnsonPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9789463720366ISBN 10: 9463720367 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 14 December 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Film Festivals and Ideology Critique SECTION I: ARTISTIC UNIVERSALITY 2: Enjoy Your Auteurism! The Son’s Room at Cannes 3: Gendering Art: The Great Beauty at Cannes and Tallinn SECTION II: POLITICAL UNIVERSALITY 4: There is No Sexual Relationship: Facing Window at Karlovy Vary 5: Brutal Humanism: Fire at Sea at the Berlinale SECTION III: CAPITAL 6: Capitalism and Orientalism: Gomorrah at Cannes Conclusion: Da capo senza fine Appendix 1: A-List Film Festivals Appendix 2: Italian Best Picture Winners, 1946-2020 Appendix 3: Synopses of Secondary Case Studies Bibliography Filmography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationRachel Johnson lectures in the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. She researches film festivals, cinephilia and displacement. Her work has been published in edited collections and journals such as Contours of Film Festival Research, Cinergie and the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Alongside research and teaching, she co-directs the film club Leeds Cineforum. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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