Kent Academic Repository Full text document (pdf) Citation for published version Stanfield, Peter (2008) Notes Toward a History of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1969-77. Film International, 6 (4). pp. 62-71. ISSN 1651-6826. DOI Link to record in KAR http://kar.kent.ac.uk/12945/ Document Version Publisher pdf Copyright & reuse Content in the Kent Academic Repository is made available for research purposes. Unless otherwise stated all content is protected by copyright and in the absence of an open licence (eg Creative Commons), permissions for further reuse of content should be sought from the publisher, author or other copyright holder. Versions of research The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record. Enquiries For any further enquiries regarding the licence status of this document, please contact:
[email protected] If you believe this document infringes copyright then please contact the KAR admin team with the take-down information provided at http://kar.kent.ac.uk/contact.html Below Poster for Jacques Articles Edinburgh International Film Festival Tourneur’s Anne of the Indies 62 | ilm international issue 34 Articles Edinburgh International Film Festival Below Douglas Sirk Notes Toward a History of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1969–77 By Peter Stanield Keywords: Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), ilm theory, ilm studies, auteurism, Lynda Miles, Peter Wollen, Claire Johnston, Paul Willemen Looking back over developments in British ilm culture since the late 1960s, one of the principal organizers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), David Will, wrote that the Festival ‘arrived as an institution of oppositional culture in 1969’ (Will 1982: 20).