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Abstract
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?
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Section 1: Film Festivals as Platform | 19 | ||
| Chapter 1: Watching Others’ Troubles: Revisiting “The Film Act” and Spectatorship in Activist Film Festivals | 21 | ||
| Chapter 2: Off-Screen Activism and the Documentary Film Screening | 39 | ||
| Chapter 3: ITVS (Independent Television Service) Community Cinema: State-Sponsored Documentary Film Festivals, Community Engagement and Pedagogy | 59 | ||
| Section 2: Contextual and Institutional Forces | 79 | ||
| Chapter 4: The Revolution Will Not Be Festivalized: Documentary Film Festivals and Activism | 81 | ||
| Chapter 5: Human Rights Film Festivals: Different Approaches to Change the World | 105 | ||
| Chapter 6: Refusal to Know the Place of Human Rights: Dissensus and the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival | 121 | ||
| Section 3: National and Regional Perspectives | 139 | ||
| Chapter 7: Bristol Palestine Film Festival: Engaging the Inactive, the Aroused and the Aware | 141 | ||
| Chapter 8: Reframing the Margin: Regional Film Festivals in India, a Case Study of the Cinema of Resistance | 159 | ||
| Chapter 9: “Its Not Just About the Films”: Activist Film Festivals in Post-New Order Indonesia | 181 | ||
| Section 4: Identity Politics | 197 | ||
| Chapter 10: imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival: Collaborative Criticism through Curatorship | 199 | ||
| Chapter 11: Disability Film Festivals: Biological Identity(ies) and Heterotopia | 213 | ||
| Chapter 12: “Would You Like Politics with That?” Queer Film Festival Audiences as Political Consumers | 229 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 247 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |