Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism

The Experience-Makers

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Ann Vogel
Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these non-profit organizations work as they do: by attracting people who work for free, while appealing to businesses and policymakers as a cheap means to illuminate the creative city and draw attention to film art. Ann Vogel’s unprecedented systematic sociological analysis thus provides firm evidence for the ‘festival effect’, which situates the festival as a key intermediary in cinema value chains, yet also demonstrates the impact of such event culture on cultural workers’ lives. By probing the various resources and institutional pillars ensuring that the festivalization of capitalism is here to stay, Vogel urges us to think critically about publicly displayed benevolence in the context of cinema—and beyond.
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2023
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Ann Vogel, Ph.D. is a sociologist who works at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Police Administration and Administration of Justice Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Güstrow, Germany as a research promotion manager.
Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Film Festivals, Introducing a Global Population

Part 1
Affordances
1 Film Festivals and Festivalization

2 The Experience-Maker

3 Alternative Exhibition


Part 2
Devices
4 Mimetic Adoption and Social Capital

5 Festival Devices

6 Examining the Festival Effect


Part 3
Justifications
7 Film Festival as Charismatic Organization

8 Spreading the Risk: Film Festival Work and Creative Labor Strategies

9 Institutional Supports for Festival Volunteering

10 The Calling of Unpaid Labor


Part 4
Adjustments
11 Affect, Event, and Social Order

12 A Postmodern Grants Economics: Elites, Excess, and Cultural Diversity

13 Activation, or the Eclipse of the Civic Polis

 Toward Social Activism, a Conclusion

 Appendix: Methodological Supplement for Chapter 6

 Bibliography

 index
All with an interest in the Humanities, especially Media, Cultural and Communication Studies and Cinema & Film Festival Research; Social Sciences (especially economic and cultural sociology, cultural economics, capitalism theory, Weberian sociology, New Institutionalism, non-profit sector research, management and business studies); industrial sociology and film performance analysis.
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