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    The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics

    Posted By: Underaglassmoon
    The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics

    The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics
    Palgrave Macmillan | Media Studies | February 6, 2017 | ISBN-10: 1137590343 | 251 pages | pdf | 2.72 mb

    Richards, Stuart
    Provides the first full-length study on the queer film festival
    Presents a new approach to thinking about community arts organizations
    Considers queer film festivals in Melbourne and Hong Kong
    Collects a diverse array of original interviews, from audience members and interns to film festival directors


    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.

    Number of Pages
    IX, 251
    Number of Illustrations and Tables
    13 b/w illustrations
    Topics
    Film History
    Cultural History
    Gender Studies
    Film Theory