Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema: Politics, Histories and Cultural Value

This text offers pertinent theoretical insights and a new methodology for the study of film festivals and identifies key sources, including film festivals’ recently-digitized catalogues from past editions.

Rachel Johnson lectures in the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. She researches film festivals, cinephilia and displacement. Her work has been published in edited collections and journals such as Contours of Film Festival Research, Cinergie and the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Alongside research and teaching, she co-directs the film club Leeds Cineforum.