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. As the first 'critique' of festival studies from within, LGBTQ Film Festivals argues that both festivals and queer film cultures are by definition ephemeral. The book is organized around two concepts: First, 'critical festival studies' examines the political project and disciplinary assumptions that structure festival research. Second, 'the festival as a method' pays attention to festivals' role as producers of knowledge: it argues that festivals are not mere objects of research but also actors already shaping academic, industrial, and popular cinematic knowledge. Drawing on the author's experience on the festival circuit, this book pays homage to the labour of queer organizers, critics, and scholars and opens up new avenues for festival research.
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.
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
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).
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