[Filmfestivalresearch] New book: Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

Antoine Damiens a.damiens at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 20:27:14 CET 2023


Hello everyone,

New book: De Valck, Marijke and Antoine Damiens, eds. Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 


We are delighted to announce the publication of an edited collection on the impact of Covid-19 on international film festivals. The book, edited by Marijke de Valck and Antoine Damiens,  is published in open access with Palgrave Macmillan and can be downloaded for free here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3 <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3> . Softcover and hardcover printed books will be available for purchase in the next couple of weeks. 
 
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.  
 
Table of content:

Chapter 1: What Happens When Festivals Can’t Happen? 
Antoine Damiens and Marijke de Valck
 
Part I: Contaminated Circuits: Covid-19 and the Festival Ecosystem
 
Chapter 2: Stopping the Flow: Film Circulation in the Festival Ecosystem at a Moment of Disruption
Skadi Loist

Chapter 3: Scarcity, Ubiquity, and the Film Festival after Covid
Brendan Kredell

Chapter 4: Locating Buzz and Liveness: The Role of Geoblocking and Co-Presence in Virtual Film Festivals
Diane Burgess and Kirsten Stevens
 
Chapter 5: Film Festivals on the Small Screen: Audiences, Domestic Space, and Everyday Media 
James Vail, Theresa Heath, Lesley-Ann Dickson and Rebecca Finkel.

Chapter 6: Finding Allies in Pandemic Times: Documentary Film Festivals and Streaming Platforms 
Aida Vallejo and Christel Taillibert
 
Chapter 7: Chilean Film Festivals and Local Audiences: Going Online?
María Paz Peirano and Gonzalo Ramírez
 
 
Part II: Experimenting on the Frontlines: Innovative Responses to the Crisis
 
Chapter 8: Vidéo de Femmes dans le Parc: Feminist Rhythms and Festival Times under Covid
Ylenia Olibet and Alanna Thain
 
Chapter 9: Curating our Own Space: A Conversation on Online Queer Film Exhibition and Adult Queer Cinema
Jenni Olson and Jiz Lee
 
Chapter 10: Cinephilia, Publics, Cinegoraphilia: Surveying the Short-Term Effects of Covid-19 on Community-Based Festivals in Toronto
Jonathan Petrychyn
 
Chapter 11: Film Festivals in Taiwan: Lurking on the Periphery
Beth Tsai
 
Chapter 12: Precarity, Innovation and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector
Tilottama Karlekar
 
Chapter 13: Curating as care at Cannes Critics Week and Marrakech
Clémentine Dramani-Issifou
 
 
Part III: Never Waste a Good Crisis: (Re)imagining Festivals after the Pandemic
 
Chapter 14: Towards Decolonized Film Festival Worlds
Lindiwe Dovey and Estrella Sendra
 
Chapter 15: Festivals, Covid-19, and the Crisis of Archiving
Antoine Damiens 

Chapter 16: Greening Film Festivals
Marijke de Valck and Ger Zielinski

Antoine Damiens
Research Associate, York University
Part time faculty, Université du Québec à Montréal
a.damiens at gmail.com





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