Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur University, India
Yomi Braester, University of Washington, USA
Barton Byg, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Charlie Cauchi, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Ben Goldsmith, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Tom O'Regan, University of Queensland, Australia
Duncan Petrie, University of York, UK
Anna Westerståhl Stenport, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Renata ukaityt?, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Lithuania
Yoshiharu Tezuka, Komazawa University, Japan
Evan Torner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Marijke de Valck, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Introduction: More than Film School: Why the Full Spectrum of Practice-based Film Education Warrants Attention; Mette Hjort PART I: EUROPE 1. Practice-based Film Education in Lithuania: Main Actors and Sites of Struggle; Renata Šukaityte 2. Mapping Film Education and Training on the Island of Malta; Charlie Cauchi 3. The Struggle for a Scottish National Film School; Duncan Petrie 4. 'We Train Auteurs': Education, De-centralization, Regional Funding, and Niche Marketing in the New Swedish Cinema; Anna Stenport 5. Divided Dirigisme: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Reform in the German Film Academies; Barton Byg and Evan Torner 6. Sites of Initiation: Film Training Programs at Film Festivals; Marijke de Valck PART II: AUSTRALIA AND ASIA 7. Beyond the Modular Film School: Australian Film and Television Schools and their Digital Transitions; Ben Goldsmith and Tom O'Regan 8. Dynamics of the Cultures of Discontent: How is Globalization Transforming the Training of Filmmakers in Japan?; Yoshiharu Tezuka 9. Learning with Images in the Digital Age; Moinak Biswas 10. Film Schools in the PRC: Professionalization and Its Discontents; Yomi Braester 11. Film Education in Hong Kong: New Challenges and Opportunities; Stephen Chan