The queer film festival : popcorn and politics / Stuart James Richards.
2016
PN1993.44.G39
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Title
The queer film festival : popcorn and politics / Stuart James Richards.
ISBN
9781137584380 (electronic book)
1137584386 (electronic book)
1137590343
9781137590343
1137584386 (electronic book)
1137590343
9781137590343
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1057/978-1-137-58438-0 doi
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PN1993.44.G39
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4365266
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 30, 2017).
Series
Framing film festivals.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
2. Queer Film Festival and the Creative Industries
3. Queer Film Festival as a Social Enterprise
4. Queer Film Festival Programming and Homonormativity
5. Space of the Film Festival
6. Conclusion.
2. Queer Film Festival and the Creative Industries
3. Queer Film Festival as a Social Enterprise
4. Queer Film Festival Programming and Homonormativity
5. Space of the Film Festival
6. Conclusion.