Australian Film Festivals

Kirsten Stevens is Teaching Associate in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia.

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• List of Illustrations.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction.- 1.Enthusiastic Amateurs: Origins of Australia’s film festival movement.- 2.Growth and Change: Curator-led festivals, fragmenting audiences and shifting film exhibition cultures.- 3. From Film Weeks to Festivals: The spread of the urban film festival after 1980.- 4. Between Success and Failure: Crisis and recovery at the Melbourne International Film Festival.- 5. Programming Perceptions: Film festivals and the construction of taste.- 6.A Festival for Every Occasion: Niche programming, event culture and vertically integrated film festivals.- Conclusion.- Appendix 1: Early Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival programs.- Appendix 2: Summary of film exhibition and film culture activities, 1949-1990.- Appendix 3: Film Festivals in Melbourne, 1949-2000.- Appendix 4: Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals.- Archives and Research Collections.- Bibliography.