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The Queer Film Festival - Popcorn and Politics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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The Queer Film Festival - Popcorn and Politics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Framing Film Festivals
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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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