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    The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics

    The Queer Film Festival by Richards, Stuart James;

    Popcorn and Politics

    Series: Framing Film Festivals;

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    • Edition number Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
    • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
    • Date of Publication 9 December 2018
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Previously published in hardcover

    • ISBN 9781349958610
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 13 Illustrations, black & white
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    Short description:

    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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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction.-.Chapter 1: The Queer Film Festival and the Creative Industries.-.Chapter 2: The Queer Film Festival as a Social Enterprise .-.Chapter 3: Queer Film Festival Programming and Homonormativity.-.Chapter 4: The Space of the Film Festival.-.Conclusion.


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