1st Edition
Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema Politics, Histories and Cultural Value
By Rachel Johnson
Copyright 2024
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
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Film 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... Read more
Introduction, 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, Index.
Biography
Rachel 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.
