1.3 General Academic Studies on Festivals (Not only Film Festivals)

Allen, Johnny, William O’Toole, Ian McDonnell, and Robert Harris. 2002. Festival and Special Event Management. 2. ed. Wiley Australian tourism series. Milton: Wiley. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780471421825.pdf.

Autissier, Anne-Marie, ed. 2008. L’Europe des festivals: De Zagreb à Edimbourg, points de vue croisés. Toulouse, Saint-Denis: Attribut. [The Europe of Festivals: From Zagreb to Edinburgh. Intersecting Viewpoints].

Autissier, Anne-Marie, ed. 2009. The Europe of Festivals: From Zagreb to Edinburgh. Intersecting Viewpoints… Toulouse, Paris: éditions de l’áttribut; Culture Europe International.

Bennett, Andy, Jodie Taylor, and Ian Woodward, eds. 2014. The Festivalization of Culture. Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Bennett, Andy, and Ian Woodward. 2014. “Festival Spaces, Identity, Experience and Belonging.” In The Festivalization of Culture, edited by Andy Bennett, Jodie Taylor, and Ian Woodward, 11–25. Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Chalcraft, Jasper, Gerard Delanty, and Monica Sassatelli. 2014. “Varieties of Cosmopolitanism in Art Festivals.” In The Festivalization of Culture, edited by Andy Bennett, Jodie Taylor, and Ian Woodward, 109–29. Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Chalcraft, Jasper, and Paolo Magaudda. 2011. “’Space Is the Place’: The Global Localities of the Sónar and WOMAD Music Festivals.” In Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere, edited by Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli, and Gerard Delanty, 173–89. Abingdon, New York: Routledge.

Crespi-Valbona, Montserrat, and Greg Richards. 2007. “The Meaning of Cultural Festivals: Stakeholder Perspectives in Catalunya.” International Journal of Cultural Policy 13 (1): 103–22.

Cudny, Waldemar. 2016. Festivalisation of Urban Spaces: Factors, Processes and Effects: Springer.

Duvignaud, Jean. 1976. “Festivals: A Sociological Approach.” Cultures 3 (1): 13–28.

Falassi, Alessandro. 1987. Time Out of Time: Essays on the Festival. Albuquerque, N.M. University of New Mexico Press.

Finkel, Rebecca. 2009. “A Picture of the Contemporary Combined Arts Festival Landscape.” Cultural Trends 18 (1): 3–21.

Fléchet, Anaïs, Pascale Gœtschel, Patricia Hidiroglou, Sophie Jacotot, Caroline Moine, and Julie Verlaine, eds. 2013. Une histoire des festivals: XXe-XXIe siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. [A History of Festivals: 20th – 21st Century].

Fournier, Laurent Sébastien. 2019. “Traditional Festivals: From European Ethnology to Festive Studies.” JFS 1 (1): 11–26. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2019.1.1.21.

Getz, Donald, Tommy Andersson, and Mia Larson. 2007. “Festival Stakeholder Roles: Concepts and Case Studies.” Event Management 10 (2): 103–22.

“European Arts Festivals: Cultural Pragmatics and Discursive Identity Frames.” 2010. Unpublished manuscript, last modified April 07, 2020. http://community.iknowfutures.eu/action/file/download?file_guid=8885. WP3 Main Report.

Giorgi, Liana, ed. 2011. European Arts Festivals: Strengthening Cultural Diversity. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. Accessed April 07, 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/policy_reviews/euro-festival-report_en.pdf.

Giorgi, Liana, Monica Sassatelli, and Gerard Delanty, eds. 2011. Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere. Abingdon, New York: Routledge.

Gœtschel, Pascale, and Patricia Hidiroglou. 2013. “Introduction: Le festival, objet d’histoire.” [Introduction: The festival, object of history]. In Une histoire des festivals: XXe-XXIe siècle, edited by Anaïs Fléchet, Pascale Gœtschel, Patricia Hidiroglou, Sophie Jacotot, Caroline Moine, and Julie Verlaine, 7–15. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne.

Hagan, Cara. 2018. “Curatorial Practices for Intersectional Programming.” IJSD 9:133–51. https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v9i0.6046.

Harris, Neil. 2007. “Festival Culture, American Style.” In The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State, edited by Casey N. Blake, 11–29. Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.

Hauptfleisch, Temple, Shulamith Lev-Aladgem, Jacqueline Martin, Willmar Sauter, and Henri Schoenmakers, eds. 2007. Festivalising: Theatrical Events, Politics and Culture. Themes in theatre – collective Approaches to theatre and Performance 3. Amsterdam, New York, NY: Rodopi.

Jaeger, Kari, and Reidar Mykletun. 2009. “The Festivalscape of Finnmark.” Scand. J. of Hospitality & Tourism 9 (2-3): 327–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250903119520.

Limov, Brad. 2024. “Media Industry Events as Platforms for Social Justice: Moving from Inspiration to Impact in Creative Production.” PhD Thesis, Journalism and Media, The University of Texas at Austin.

Lundberg, Erik, John Armbrecht, Tommy D. Andersson, and Donald Getz, eds. 2017. The Value of Events. Routledge Advances in Event Research Series. London: Routledge.

MacAloon, John J., ed. 1984. Rite, Drama, Festival, Spectacle: Rehearsals toward a Theory of Cultural Performance. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues.

Mair, Judith, ed. 2019. The Routledge Handbook of Festivals: Routledge.

Moeran, Brian, and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, eds. 2011. Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Négrier, Emmanuel, and Marie-Thérese Jourda. 2007. Les nouveaux territoires des festivals. Paris: Michel de Maule. [The new festival territories].

Peaslee, Robert Moses. 2013. “Media Conduction: Festivals, Networks, and Boundaried Spaces.” IJoC (7): 811–30.

Poirrier, Philippe, ed. (http://tristan.u-bourgogne.fr/CGC/publications/Festivals_societes/Festivals.html) 2012. “Festivals & sociétés en Europe, XIXe-XXIe siècles.” Special issue, Territoires contemporains, no. 3.

Richards, Greg, and Alba Colombo. 2017. “Creating Network Value the Barcelona Sónar Festival as a Global Events Hub.” In The Value of Events, edited by Erik Lundberg, John Armbrecht, Tommy D. Andersson, and Donald Getz, 73–86. Routledge Advances in Event Research Series. London: Routledge.

“European Public Culture and Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism: Main Report.” 2008. Report completed in the framework of the EURO-FESTIVAL project.

“European Arts Festivals from a Historical Perspective: Main Report 2.” 2009. Report completed in the framework of the EURO-FESTIVAL project.

Sicondolfo, Claudia Francesca. 2024. “Programming Process Pedagogy: Towards Meaningful Audience Engagement and Public Participation Models Within Contemporary Canadian Media Arts Festival, 2012-2024.” PhD, Graduate Program in Cinema and Media Arts, York University. Accessed 31.02.2023. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/bitstreams/3acd29b2-fc48-47a7-947c-139adc308438/download.

Siročić, Zorica. 2025. “Anger in Festivals: Contradiction in Terms or a Desirable Part of the Program?” Emotion, Space and Society 55:101087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101087.

Taylor, Jodie. 2014. “Festivalizing Sexualities: Discourses of ‘Pride’, Counter-Discourses of ‘Shame’.” In The Festivalization of Culture, edited by Andy Bennett, Jodie Taylor, and Ian Woodward, 27–48. Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Teissl, Verena. 2013. Kulturveranstaltung Festival: Formate, Entstehung und Potenziale. Bielefeld: transcript.

Twaalfhoven, Anita, ed. 2010. “Festivals.” Special issue, Boekman, no. 83.

Wallin, Mark Rowell, Billy Collins, and John S. Hull. 2013. “It’s Not Just About the Film: Festivals, Sustainability, and Small Cities.” In Events, Society and Sustainability: Critical and Contemporary Approaches, edited by Tomas Pernecky and Michael Lück, 229–43. Routledge Advances in Event Research Series. London: Routledge.

Williams, Michael, and Glenn A. J. Bowdin. 2007. “Festival Evaluation: An Exploration of Seven UK Arts Festivals.” Managing Leisure 12 (2-3): 187–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/13606710701339520.

 

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