Film Programming: Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives

by Peter Bosma

Overview

This study explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archives and situating film—curating issues within an international context. Artistic and commercial film availability has increased overwhelmingly as a result of the digitization of the infrastructure of distribution and exhibition. The film trade's conventional structures are transforming and, in the digital age, supply and demand can meet without the intervention of traditional gatekeepers—everybody can be a film curator, in a passive or active way. This volume 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 way to present them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231174596
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Series:	Short Cuts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Bosma is an independent programmer, researcher, and lecturer in film studies based in the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Reflection
2. Cinephilia as a Curatorial Element
3. The Network of Intermediaries
4. Curating Film Theatres
5. Curating Film Festivals
6. Curating Film Archives
7. Case Studies
8. Conclusion: Final Words
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Jason Wood

Without a doubt the best book I have read on the subject and certain to make a lasting impression on how we consider the role of the film curator. In a time of mainstream cultural dominance, this is needed now more than ever.

Professor Paul Willemen

This series is tailor-made for a modular approach to film studies...an indispensable tool for both lecturers and students.