Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
440
result(s) for
"Festivals -- Australia"
Sort by:
Australian film festivals : audience, place, and exhibition culture
This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film festivals have prospered as audience-driven spectacles throughout Australia, while never developing the same industry and market foci of their international fellows. Drawing on over sixty-years of archival records, festival commentary, interviews with festival insiders and ephemera, this book opens up a largely uncharted history of film culture activity in Australia. .
Book
Festival places
Festivals have burgeoned in rural areas, revitalising old traditions and inventing new reasons to celebrate. How do festivals contribute to tourism, community and a rural sense of belonging? What are their cultural, environmental and economic dimensions? This book features contributions from researchers who answer such questions.
eBook
Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia
Throughout the world, the number of festivals has grown exponentially in the last two decades, as people celebrate local and regional cultures, but perhaps more importantly as local councils and other groups seek to use festivals both to promote tourism and to stimulate rural development. However, most studies of festivals have tended to focus almost exclusively on the cultural and symbolic aspects, or on narrow modelling of economic multiplier impacts, rather than examining their long-term implications for rural change. This book therefore has an original focus. It is structured in two parts: the first discusses broad issues affecting music festivals globally, especially in the context of rural revitalisation. The second part looks in more detail at a range of types of festivals commonly found throughout North America, Europe and Australasia, such as country music, jazz, opera and alternative music festivals. The authors draw on in-depth research undertaken over the past five years in a range of Australian places, which traces the overall growth of festivals of various kinds, examines four of the more important and distinctive music festivals, and makes clear conclusions on their significance for rural and regional change.
eBook
Canberra: Big Screen:Touring Films to Regional Australia
In 2001, ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive, in collaboration with the Australian Film Commission launched a new initiative: a touring festival of Australian cinema to towns in regional Australia. Known as Big Screen 2001, this festival involved contemporary Australian films alongside classics from Australia's cinema history. The program was devised in consultation with each cinema and location, and relied on not only government funding, but also in-kind support and box office from the screenings. The program has been so successful that it is now in its second season, with continued support from the Australian Film Commission, as well as from the Archive's home department. The combination of archival film and contemporary cinema has proved a winning formula, and the Australian Minister for the Arts and Sport who launched the event, welcomes the exposure of regional audiences to Australian cinema culture.
Journal Article
Short films cast long shadows: Flickerfest 2012
Sampling highlights from the iconic short film festival's coming-of-age year, Myke Bartlett finds that the view through a keyhole can open onto grand vistas.
Magazine Article