Film Programming: Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives
Peter Bosma
Abstract
This book explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theatres, film festivals and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. It describes how artistic and commercial film availability has increased overwhelmingly as a result of the digitization of the infrastructure of distribution and exhibition. It argues that the film trade's conventional structures are transforming and that, in the digital age, supply and demand can meet without the intervention of traditional gatekeepers; in other words, everybody can be a film curator, in a pas ... More
This book explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theatres, film festivals and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. It describes how artistic and commercial film availability has increased overwhelmingly as a result of the digitization of the infrastructure of distribution and exhibition. It argues that the film trade's conventional structures are transforming and that, in the digital age, supply and demand can meet without the intervention of traditional gatekeepers; in other words, everybody can be a film curator, in a passive or active way. The book addresses three kinds of readers: those who want to become film curators, those who want to research the film-curating phenomenon, and those critical cinema visitors who seek to investigate the story behind the selection process of available films and the ways that are available to present them.
Keywords:
cinema exhibition,
film theatres,
film festivals,
film archives,
digital age,
curator,
digitization
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780231174596 |
Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 |
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231174596.001.0001 |