Virginia Wright Wexman
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The Places of Film Festivals
Toby's post raises the important issue of the role played by place in film festival culture. As her discussion suggests, the discourses surrounding this aspect of film fests can be very complex. In some cases, the spaces of festivals function as tour ... -
Auteurism as shorthand
I take Brendan's point about the advantages of promoting auteurs, a strategy which many film festivals use to promote what David Bordwell has called "Art Cinema" and what radical filmmakers have dubbed "Second Cinema." Cannes repr ...