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The Queer Film Festival : Popcorn and Politics / / by Stuart James Richards



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Autore: Richards Stuart James Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Queer Film Festival : Popcorn and Politics / / by Stuart James Richards Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 256 p. 13 illus.)
Disciplina: 791.4309
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures—History
Civilization—History
Sociology
Motion pictures
Film History
Cultural History
Gender Studies
Film Theory
Nota di contenuto: The Queer Film Festival and the Creative Industries -- The Queer Film Festival as a Social Enterprise -- Queer Film Festival Programming and Homonormativity -- The Space of the Film Festival.
Sommario/riassunto: 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. .
Altri titoli varianti: EPUB
Titolo autorizzato: The Queer Film Festival  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-58438-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910158657303321
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Serie: Framing Film Festivals