Featuring essays by and interviews with festival programmers, filmmakers, activists, and film scholars, "Film Festivals and Activism" explores the role of film festivals in social justice movements and campaigns.
Digging deeply into the precarious, intuitive business of film festival organization, Fischer pours this often-chaotic business into an adapted framework of the Open Systems Theory, so that it becomes possible to think about festivals in more pragmatic terms.
Combining theoretical and historical overviews with detailed studies of individual festivals and personal testimonies from experts long associated with film festivals, Ruoff makes a thorough, wide-ranging, and insightful effort at covering a field that has been significantly neglected in scholarship.
Will digital dissemination produce a massive disruption to the film industry, as it did to mail delivery services, bookselling, and music distribution? "Digital Disruption" helps to make sense of what has happened in the short but turbulent history of on-line distribution. It provides a realistic assessment of the disruptions that moving from analogue dollars to digital cents has provoked in the film industry.
