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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Festivals Uncut: Queering Festival Studies Curating LGBTQ Film Festivals -Pre-screening: constituting festival studies -Queering festival studies: critical festival studies and the festival as a method -Labour of love: desiring scholars/festivals -The cut: a note on methodology -Curating the book -Speaking in queer tongues: a note on terminology Chapter 1. Festivals that (did not) Matter: Festivals' Archival Practices and the Field Imaginary of Festival Studies. -Cruising the archives -Compromising evidences: ephemeral traces in the archives -Unpacking the archives: (dis)ordering ephemeral traces -Festivals that did not matter: festivals' archival practices and historiography -Making history: on queer festival studies' historical project -Festivals that matter: festival studies' field imaginary methods and political project -'Doing justice' to ghosts: critical festival studies Chapter 2. The Queer Film Ecosystem: Symbolic Economy Festivals and Queer Cinema's Legs -Now you can see it= early gay and lesbian festivals film cultures and film distribution -Soon at a theatre near you= Towards LGBTQ distribution -Cultural fields: regimes of taste queer relays and the queer film ecosystem -Distribution: queer film cultures relays and cultural fields -Geographic relays: cultural fields in Europe and in America Chapter 3. Out of the Celluloid Closet into the Theatres! Towards a Genealogy of Queer Film Festivals and Gay and Lesbian Film Studies -1970s: critics/scholars curation as a praxis of canon-building and gay and lesbian cinemas -1980s: Cruising the protest organizing gay and lesbian cinema -1990s: Professionalizing queer cinema disciplining scholars -Festival as object / field of research: insider/outsider and critical festival studies Chapter 4. Festivals as Archives: Collective Memory and LGBTQ Festivals' Temporality -'I like to watch=': queer festivals' visual architectures -Festivals' visual architectures temporality and cultural memory -Festivals as archives: temporality and festivals' curatorial practices -Festivals as archivists: documenting representing and historicizing festivals. -'Films bring us together': archives of feeling affect and queer cultural memory Chapter 5. Images+Translation: Imagining Queerness and its Homoscapes -Centre/periphery festival tours and festivals' geopolitical imaginary -Festivals gay languages and the globalization of sexuality -Film as gay language -Catalogues gay languages and world-making: LGBTQ festivals and the globalization of sexuality -Festivals as homoscapes: LGBTQ festivals reverberations and the disjunctive nature of globalization Conclusion. The Impossibility of Festival Studies? On the Temporalities of Field Intervention and the Queering of Festival Studies -The paradoxes of identity: doing justice to LGBTQ festivals Bibliography Filmography Index
Introduction Festivals Uncut: Queering Festival Studies Curating LGBTQ Film Festivals -Pre-screening: constituting festival studies -Queering festival studies: critical festival studies and the festival as a method -Labour of love: desiring scholars/festivals -The cut: a note on methodology -Curating the book -Speaking in queer tongues: a note on terminology Chapter 1. Festivals that (did not) Matter: Festivals' Archival Practices and the Field Imaginary of Festival Studies. -Cruising the archives -Compromising evidences: ephemeral traces in the archives -Unpacking the archives: (dis)ordering ephemeral traces -Festivals that did not matter: festivals' archival practices and historiography -Making history: on queer festival studies' historical project -Festivals that matter: festival studies' field imaginary methods and political project -'Doing justice' to ghosts: critical festival studies Chapter 2. The Queer Film Ecosystem: Symbolic Economy Festivals and Queer Cinema's Legs -Now you can see it= early gay and lesbian festivals film cultures and film distribution -Soon at a theatre near you= Towards LGBTQ distribution -Cultural fields: regimes of taste queer relays and the queer film ecosystem -Distribution: queer film cultures relays and cultural fields -Geographic relays: cultural fields in Europe and in America Chapter 3. Out of the Celluloid Closet into the Theatres! Towards a Genealogy of Queer Film Festivals and Gay and Lesbian Film Studies -1970s: critics/scholars curation as a praxis of canon-building and gay and lesbian cinemas -1980s: Cruising the protest organizing gay and lesbian cinema -1990s: Professionalizing queer cinema disciplining scholars -Festival as object / field of research: insider/outsider and critical festival studies Chapter 4. Festivals as Archives: Collective Memory and LGBTQ Festivals' Temporality -'I like to watch=': queer festivals' visual architectures -Festivals' visual architectures temporality and cultural memory -Festivals as archives: temporality and festivals' curatorial practices -Festivals as archivists: documenting representing and historicizing festivals. -'Films bring us together': archives of feeling affect and queer cultural memory Chapter 5. Images+Translation: Imagining Queerness and its Homoscapes -Centre/periphery festival tours and festivals' geopolitical imaginary -Festivals gay languages and the globalization of sexuality -Film as gay language -Catalogues gay languages and world-making: LGBTQ festivals and the globalization of sexuality -Festivals as homoscapes: LGBTQ festivals reverberations and the disjunctive nature of globalization Conclusion. The Impossibility of Festival Studies? On the Temporalities of Field Intervention and the Queering of Festival Studies -The paradoxes of identity: doing justice to LGBTQ festivals Bibliography Filmography Index
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