Film Festival/Film History: The Impact of Film Festivals on Cinema Historiography. Il Cinema Ritrovato and Beyond
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2011
abstract:
The aim of this essay is to offer some coordinates for the analysis of the impact of film festivals on
cinema historiography.
Although film festivals have had a pivotal role in film studies since the 1940s in determining
various aspects of research interests, both on a critical and theoretical level, it is only in recent years
that they have gathered academic attention as an autonomous research field. Moreover, even among
most studies of film festivals, the relationship between film festivals and cinematic historiography
seems to have been overlooked. Therefore, this essay is conceived as a provisional contribution
(which, obviously, doesn???t aim to fully cover the entire field) standing out as a first attempt at
outlining the topic???s boundaries to try and set the parameters of further research.
After defining what we mean by the impact of film festivals on cinema historiography, we try
to construct a conceptual framework, capable of examining how the strategies deployed by film
festivals ??? such as their structure, schedules, published materials or conferences, and also their
identification of a target audience ??? implicitly highlight the potential impact of film festivals on
cinema historiography. To exemplify our theoretical statements, we refer to different kinds of film
festivals and, more particularly, we make a few remarks about a very particular case, Il cinema
ritrovato in Bologna.
cinema historiography.
Although film festivals have had a pivotal role in film studies since the 1940s in determining
various aspects of research interests, both on a critical and theoretical level, it is only in recent years
that they have gathered academic attention as an autonomous research field. Moreover, even among
most studies of film festivals, the relationship between film festivals and cinematic historiography
seems to have been overlooked. Therefore, this essay is conceived as a provisional contribution
(which, obviously, doesn???t aim to fully cover the entire field) standing out as a first attempt at
outlining the topic???s boundaries to try and set the parameters of further research.
After defining what we mean by the impact of film festivals on cinema historiography, we try
to construct a conceptual framework, capable of examining how the strategies deployed by film
festivals ??? such as their structure, schedules, published materials or conferences, and also their
identification of a target audience ??? implicitly highlight the potential impact of film festivals on
cinema historiography. To exemplify our theoretical statements, we refer to different kinds of film
festivals and, more particularly, we make a few remarks about a very particular case, Il cinema
ritrovato in Bologna.
Iris type:
1.1 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
Festival cinematografici; Storiografia del cinema; Il cinema ritrovato
List of contributors:
DI CHIARA, Francesco; V., Re
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