Activist film festivals : towards a political subject / Sonia Tascón and Tyson Wils.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tascón, Sonia M., editor.

Contributor:

Wils, Tyson, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film festivals.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of film-making. This book breaks new ground by bringing scholars from a range of disciplines together with industry professionals to explore the concept of festivals as spaces where the sociopolitical identities of communities and individuals are confronted and shaped. Tracing the growth of activist and human rights-focused films from the 1970s to the present, and using case studies from San Francisco, Brazil, Bristol and elsewhere, the book addresses such contentious topics as whether activist films can achieve humanitarian aims or simply offer "cinema of suffering." Ultimately, the contributors attack the question of just how effective festivals are at producing politically engaged spectators? Book jacket.

Contents:

Section 1 Film Festivals as Platform 19

Chapter 1 Watching Others' Troubles: Revisiting "The Film Act" and Spectatorship in Activist Film Festivals / Sonia Tascón Tascón, Sonia 21

Chapter 2 Off-Screen Activism and the Documentary Film Screening / Lyell Davies Davies, Lyell 39

Chapter 3 ITVS (Independent Television Service) Community Cinema: State-Sponsored Documentary Film Festivals, Community Engagement and Pedagogy / Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli Crowder-Taraborrelli, Tomás F., Kristi Wilson Wilson, Kristi 59

Section 2 Contextual and Institutional Forces 79

Chapter 4 The Revolution Will Not Be Festivalized: Documentary Film Festivals and Activism / Ezra Winton Winton, Ezra, Svetla Turnin Turnin, Svetla 81

Chapter 5 Human Rights Film Festivals: Different Approaches to Change the World / Matthea de Jong Jong, Matthea de, Daan Bronkhorst Bronkhorst, Daan 105

Chapter 6 Refusal to Know the Place of Human Rights: Dissensus and the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival / Tyson Wils Wils, Tyson 121

Section 3 National and Regional Perspectives 139

Chapter 7 Bristol Palestine Film Festival: Engaging the Inactive, the Aroused and the Aware / David Owen Owen, David 141

Chapter 8 Retraining the Margin: Regional Film Festivals in India, a Case Study of the Cinema of Resistance / Shweta Kishore Kishore, Shweta 159

Chapter 9 "Its Not Just About the Films": Activist Film Festivals in Post-New Order Indonesia / Alexandra Crosby Crosby, Alexandra 181

Section 4 Identity Politics 197

Chapter 10 ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival: Collaborative Criticism through Curatorship / Davinia Thornley Thornley, Davinia 199

Chapter 11 Disability Film Festivals: Biological Identity(ies) and Heterotopia / Ana Cristina Bohrer Gilbert Gilbert, Ana Cristina Bohrer 213

Chapter 12 "Would You Like Politics with That?" Queer Film Festival Audiences as Political Consumers / Stuart Richards Richards, Stuart 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781783206346

1783206349

OCLC:

965518109