[Filmfestivalresearch] New book: Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema

[Rachel Johnson]

Dear Colleagues

I'm delighted to announce the publication of my new book Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema, published with Amsterdam University Press.

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Blurb:
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 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.

Accessing the book
You can read the book's Introduction for free via my Academia.edu page (shared with AUP's permission): http://tinyurl.com/FFIIAC-preview

Please consider ordering the book via AUP's website (http://tinyurl.com/RJAUP2024) or asking your library to order it. You will receive a 20% discount until 31st May 2024 if you use the code "AUP20" at checkout.

If you are interested in reviewing the book, please contact marketing at aup.nl.


All the best

Rachel


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R Johnson
Lecturer in Film Studies
University of Leeds | LS2 9JT

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