Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
- Examines how Covid-19 impacts film festivals by disrupting industry systems & rearticulating their audience relationship
- Documents how film festivals worldwide responded to the pandemic crisis
- Argues festivals should rethink their ecological footprint, decolonize their operation, and preserve their history
Part of the book series: Framing Film Festivals (FFF)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Contaminated Circuits: Covid-19 and the Festival Ecosystem
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Experimenting on the Frontlines: Innovative Responses to the Crisis
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Never Waste a Good Crisis: (Re)imagining Festivals After the Pandemic
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About this book
This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format appears particularly vulnerable in pandemic times. Imperfect measures, such as the move to a digital format, cannot recapture the communal experience at the very core of festivals. Given the global nature of the pandemic and the diversity of the festival phenomenon, this book features a wide range of case studies and analytical frameworks. With contributors including established scholars and frontline festival workers, the book is conceived as both a theoretical endeavour and a practical exploration of festival organizing in pandemic times.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marijke de Valck is Associate Professor of film and media studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands, where she co-directs the master program in film and television cultures. Her research deals with film festivals, transnational media cultures, media industries, and art cinema. Her publications include Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (2007), the co-edited Film Festival: History, Theory, Method, Praxis (2016) and Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience (2020). She is co-founder of the Film Festival Research Network, co-editor of Palgrave’s Framing Film Festivals series and co-editor of the festivals review section in NECSUS.
Antoine Damiens is a Research Associate at York University, Toronto, where they recently completed a MITACs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research examines the politics and history of film festivals, queer film/video, and minoritized archives. Their first book, LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness, was published in 2020. Antoine Damiens co-edits, with Marijke de Valck, the Film Festival Reviews section in NECSUS.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
Editors: Marijke de Valck, Antoine Damiens
Series Title: Framing Film Festivals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14170-6Published: 05 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14173-7Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14171-3Published: 04 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3734
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3742
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 342
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global Cinema and TV, Screen Studies