African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cult... - 9783031885891

Springer International Publishing AG

African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural HeritageAuthor(s): Sheila Petty\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031885891, 978-3031885891\nSynopsis\nThis open access book investigates how flows of knowledge that arise from the African continent travel and are transformed through new contexts of presentation and engagement in new locations. Through case studies on Africa-themed film festivals in Africa, Europe and the Americas, the book explores potential methods of catalyzing a transnational flow from inception to end that involves attention to process, rather than studying festivals as static cultural products with discrete and isolated categories of programming, presentation, documentation, and networking. The chapters probe how festivals interact with place and location and create journeys of discovery in translating and contextualizing films for specific populations and au.