The Queer Film Festival (eBook)
XIII, 256 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-58438-0 (ISBN)
This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations. With over 220 events worldwide and some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the queer film festival has grown to become a staple event in all cosmopolitan cities' arts calendars. While activism was instrumental in establishing these festivals, the pink dollar has been a deciding factor in its financial sustainability. Pretty gay boys with chiselled abs are a staple feature, rather than underground experimental faire. Community arts events, such as these, are now a creative industry. While clearly having a social purpose, they must also concern themselves with the bottom line. For all the contradictory elements of its organisational growth, this conflict makes the queer film festival an integral site for analysis. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach in examining the queer film festival as a representative snapshot of the current state of queer cinema and community based film festivals. The book looks at queer film festivals in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Melbourne to argue for the importance of these institutions remaining as community events.
Stuart Richards received his doctoral degree in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at both The University of Melbourne and RMIT University. He is a programmer for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and on the committee for online film journal Senses of Cinema. His primary research interests are queer cinema, film festivals, the creative industries, and contemporary Hollywood.
This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations. With over 220 events worldwide and some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the queer film festival has grown to become a staple event in all cosmopolitan cities' arts calendars. While activism was instrumental in establishing these festivals, the pink dollar has been a deciding factor in its financial sustainability. Pretty gay boys with chiselled abs are a staple feature, rather than underground experimental faire. Community arts events, such as these, are now a creative industry. While clearly having a social purpose, they must also concern themselves with the bottom line. For all the contradictory elements of its organisational growth, this conflict makes the queer film festival an integral site for analysis. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach in examining the queer film festival as a representative snapshot of the current state of queer cinema and community based film festivals. The book looks at queer film festivals in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Melbourne to argue for the importance of these institutions remaining as community events.
Stuart Richards received his doctoral degree in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at both The University of Melbourne and RMIT University. He is a programmer for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and on the committee for online film journal Senses of Cinema. His primary research interests are queer cinema, film festivals, the creative industries, and contemporary Hollywood.
IntroductionChapter 1: The Queer Film Festival and the Creative IndustriesChapter 2: The Queer Film Festival as a Social EnterpriseChapter 3: Queer Film Festival Programming and HomonormativityChapter 4: The Space of the Film FestivalConclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.1.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Framing Film Festivals | Framing Film Festivals |
| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 256 p. 13 illus. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Schlagworte | Arts • cinema studies • Culture • Festival • Film • film and television • Film Festival • Film History • gay and lesbian film • Gender • Heteronormativity • History • homonormativity • LGBTQ • media • Media Studies • Politics • Queer Cinema • queer film festival • Queer Theory • social enterprise theory • Social Science • Sociology |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-58438-6 / 1137584386 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-58438-0 / 9781137584380 |
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