Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals [electronic resource] /
Dovey, L.author.
Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival experience" for these groups.
Description based upon print version of record.
2 Afri-Cannes? African Film and Filmmakers at the World's Most Prestigious Film Festival3 "Where is Africa?" at the 2010 International Film Festival of Rotterdam; Where Are You Taking Me?; Moment One: The Soul of Africa?; Moment Two: African Time and Lost in Translation; Focus Three: Forget Africa and Midnight Madness; A Disruptive Footnote: Vita Nova; Africa is Here to Stay: New "A-list" Attitudes to African Film; 4 African Film Festivals in Africa: Curating "African Audiences" for "African Films"; The First Film Festivals in Africa: "Educating" the "African Audience"
New Transnational Trajectories for African Film and Filmmakers6 The Rise of "International" Film Festivals in Africa; "Africa" in the Context of Festivalization; The Journey of the Durban Film Festival towards Internationalism; "Art" in an Era of Neoliberalism and Internationalism: The Proliferation of "International" Film Festivals in Africa from the Late 1990s; The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); Curating "Indigeneity" at "International" Film Festivals in Africa; Incorporating Audiences in Film Curatorial Practices in Africa
Filmography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival experience" for these groups.
Ethnology-Africa.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Motion pictures-History.
Ethnicity.
Communication.
African Culture.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Film History.
Ethnicity Studies.
Media Studies.