1.  General overview of film festival studies research:


Elsaesser, Thomas, “Film Festival Networks. The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe” in Elsaesser,
T. European Cinema. Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, pp.
82-107.


De Valck, Marijke, and Skadi Loist (2009). "Film Festival Studies: An Overview of a Burgeoning
Field." Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit. Eds. Dina Iordanova, and Ragan Rhyne. St.
Andrews: St. Andrews Film Studies. pp. 179–215.


2. Issues, approaches & methodologies in film festival studies research:


Czach, Liz, “Film Festivals, Programming, and the Building of a National Cinema”, The Moving Image,
Vol. 4, Number 2, Fall 2004, pp. 76-88.


Dayan, Daniel (2000). "Looking for Sundance: The Social Construction of a Film Festival." Moving
Images, Culture and the Mind. Ed. Ib Bondebjerg. Luton: Univ. of Luton Press. pp. 43–52. (Aida has
PDF)


Evans, Owen (2007). "Border Exchanges: The Role of the European Film Festival." Journal of
Contemporary European Studies 15:1 (2007): 23–33.


Lucy Mazdon (2007): Transnational ‘‘French’’ Cinema: The Cannes Film Festival, Modern &
Contemporary France, 15:1, 9-20.

Stringer, Julian (2001). "Global Cities and International Film Festival Economy." Cinema and the
City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context. Eds. Mark Shiel, and Tony Fitzmaurice. Oxford:
Blackwell. pp. 134–144.


3. Specific national & regional case studies:


a/ Eastern and Central Europe:


Jindřiška Bláhová, National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Czechoslovak Film
Festival, 1946–1956, In: Karl, Lars und Skopal, Pavel (eds): Film Industry and Cultural Policy in
DDR und Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960. New York: Berghahn Books (forthcoming 2013)


Iordanova, Dina (2006). "Showdown of the Festivals: Clashing Entrepreneurships and Post-Communist
Management of Culture." Film International 4:5 (2006): 25–37.


Fehrenbach, Heidi (1995). "Mass Culture and Cold War Politics: The Berlin Film Festival of the
1950s." Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler. Chapel
Hill/London: Univ. of North Carolina Press. pp. 234–259.


b/ Western Europe:


Schwartz, Venessa.  It’s so French! Hollywood, Paris and the Making of Cosmopolitan Culture.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 57-99.


Stone, Maria. “Challenging cultural categories: The transformation of the Venice Biennale under
Fascism”, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 4:2, 1999, pp. 184-208.