LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness

Antoine Damiens

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2020

LGBTQ Film Festivals

Curating Queerness

Antoine Damiens

In the series Film Culture in Transition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543892

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About this book

While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events. In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBTQ festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical apparatuses. As the first 'critique' of festival studies from within, LGBTQ Film Festivals argues that both festivals and queer film cultures are by definition ephemeral. The book is organized around two concepts: First, 'critical festival studies' examines the political project and disciplinary assumptions that structure festival research. Second, 'the festival as a method' pays attention to festivals' role as producers of knowledge: it argues that festivals are not mere objects of research but also actors already shaping academic, industrial, and popular cinematic knowledge. Drawing on the author's experience on the festival circuit, this book pays homage to the labour of queer organizers, critics, and scholars and opens up new avenues for festival research.

Author / Editor information

Damiens Antoine :

Antoine Damiens is a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of English and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University (Montreal).

Reviews

"LGBTQ Film Festivals lays bare the extent to which film festival studies’ theories and methods frequently reduce queer film festivals to being “merely” about identity instead of perceiving these festivals as central to our understanding of how knowledge is produced."
- Jonathan Petrychyn (University of Waterloo), Media Industries 8, 1 (2021)

"Mit seiner brillanten Arbeit, deren hoher theoretischer Anspruch absolut eingelöst wird, katapultiert sich Damiens in die Riege der internationalen Queerfilmfestivalforschung, von der so wichtige Impulse für die Festivalforschung insgesamt ausgehen. Seine Argumentation ist schlüssig und nachvollziehbar, das Buch sehr gut lesbar. Mit seiner hervorragenden Arbeit demonstriert Damiens, dass wir von diesem exzellenten Forscher noch einiges zu erwarten haben."
- Dagmar Brunow, Växjö, MEDIENwissenschaft, issue 01/2021

"With his exhaustive research and intricate attention to detail, Damiens has chronicled a vital history of LGBTQ film fests, adeptly capturing a doubly marginalized culture, ghosts and all. In this moment of pause, reflection and reinvention for film festivals, it’s a book we needed."
- Matthew Hays, Cineaste, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (2020)

"An engaging and original history of queer film festivals and an insider critique of festival studies at large. Damiens has excavated our archives and offered a colourful tapestry of LGBTQ+ struggles over half a century, probing both the friendship and the activism at their core."
- Thomas Waugh, Concordia University, Canada

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Dedication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
List of abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Introduction. Festivals, Uncut : Queering Film Festival Studies, Curating LGBTQ Film Festivals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
1. Festivals that (did not) Matter : Festivals’ Archival Practices and the Field Imaginary of Festival Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2. The Queer Film Ecosystem : Symbolic Economy, Festivals, and Queer Cinema’s Legs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
3. Out of the Celluloid Closet, into the Theatres! Towards a Genealogy of Queer Film Festivals and Gay and Lesbian Film Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
4. Festivals as Archives: Collective Memory and LGBTQ Festivals’ Temporality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
5. Images+Translation: Imagining Queerness and its Homoscapes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Conclusion. The Impossibility of Festival Studies? On the Temporalities of Field Intervention and the Queering of Festival Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 294
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 13
Keywords: Film festivals; queer cinema; history of film studies; distribution; LGBT

eBook

Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9789048543892