[ecrea] DWC Announcement - New Title from St Andrews Film Studies - Film Festival Year Book 2

> */Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities/*
>
> Edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung
>
> St Andrews Film Studies, 2010
>
> ISBN: 978-0-9563730-1-4 (paperback)
>
> Price: £17.99 (UK), $29.00 (US)
>
> http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks
>
> Film Festivals are usually associated with big 
> cities? most glamorous sites where celebrities 
> showcase designer-branded outfits on miles of 
> red carpet, all lit up by press flashlights. But 
> how about the other film festivals, those 
> organised by minority groups for minority 
> audiences? How about the festivals that do not 
> trade in glamour but focus on a variety of 
> political and social agendas instead? There are 
> the UK?s largest African film festival held 
> annually in Edinburgh, the Migrant Worker Film 
> Festival in South Korea, or the festivals set up 
> by ethnic minority or human rights activists to 
> cater to displaced populations in the Sahara or 
> promote stateless Kurdish culture in the 
> diaspora, as well as grand showcases staged by 
> wealthy industrialised nations in extension of 
> their cultural diplomacy efforts. These film 
> festivals may be far from the limelight, yet in 
> creating live encounters they bring together a 
> host of imagined communities and are of at least 
> equal importance in regard to our understanding 
> of the dynamics in the global circulation of cinema.
>
> */Film Festivals and Imagined Communities/* 
> (2010), the second volume of the */Film Festival 
> Yearbook/* from St Andrews Film Studies, comes 
> timely to shed light on these issues. This 
> latest volume brings together essays about 
> festivals that use international cinema to 
> facilitate transnationally ?imagined 
> communities? for diverse socio-cultural-ethnic 
> interactions in a vast range of places, from 
> Vienna, San Francisco, and Havana to Seoul, 
> Bradford, and Dakhla. The ?Contexts? section 
> includes texts highlighting aspects of festival 
> organisation, cultural policies, and funding 
> models, as well as analysing programming 
> practices related to these often highly politicised events.
>
> The diverse range of contributors and 
> contributions to the volume reflect the series? 
> transnational focus. Authors include Ruby 
> Cheung, Lindiwe Dovey, Michael Guillén, Yun Mi 
> Hwang, Dina Iordanova, Miriam Ross, Isabel 
> Santaolalla and Stefan Simanowitz, Mustafa 
> Gündog(du, Jérôme Segal, and Roy Stafford. The 
> book features the 2009 update of the film 
> festival research bibliography by Skadi Loist 
> and Marijke de Valck, and an extensive 
> thematically-organised listing of a variety of transnational festivals.
>
> ?The very ambitious aspiration of the/ Film 
> Festival Yearbook/ is, quite literally, to define a new area of film study.?
>
> ­ Jonathan Rosenbaum (www.jonathanrosenbaum.com)
>
> ?/Film Festivals and Imagined Communities/ ­ the 
> second volume in the series ­ opens up new 
> horizons both for those who study media and 
> those who create the significant but often 
> overlooked ?media worlds? where films first get 
> launched: film festivals from the ?periphery?.?
>
> ­ Faye Ginsburg (Director, Center for Media, 
> Culture and History, New York University)
>
> Review copies of */Film Festival Yearbook 2: 
> Film Festivals and Imagined Communities/* will 
> be sent to various internationally renowned 
> journals with global circulation, including 
> /Cineaste/,/ Screen/,/ Film Comment/,/ Film 
> Quarterly/, /Historical Journal of Film, Radio 
> and Television/,/ Journal of Popular Film and 
> TV/, /Film Criticism/,/ Canadian Journal of Film 
> Studies/,/ Senses of Cinema/,/ Positif/, and more.
> *
> About the editors:*
>
> Dina Iordanova has built an academic career as a 
> specialist on the cinema of Eastern Europe and 
> the Balkans. Her more recent work is focused on 
> business models and distribution patterns within 
> the international film industries. She is 
> Director of the Centre for Film Studies at the 
> University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she 
> leads The Leverhulme Trust-funded project 
> ?Dynamics of World Cinema? 
> (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/worldcinema). She is also 
> the publisher of the /Film Festival Yearbook/ 
> (FFY) series and writes DinaView.com. Her most 
> recent work appears in /Cinema at the Periphery/ 
> (2010) and /Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema 
> and Trafficking in the New Europe/ (2010).
>
> Ruby Cheung is The Leverhulme Trust Research 
> Associate at the Centre for Film Studies at the 
> University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she 
> works with the ?Dynamics of World Cinema? team. 
> Her research interests include East Asian 
> cinemas, Asian film industries, diasporic film 
> distribution, regional and national film policy, 
> Chinese diasporic on-line fandom and issues of 
> film promotion. She is the editor of /Cinemas, 
> Identities and Beyond/ (Cambridge Scholars 
> Publishing, 2009). Her latest work includes 
> investigations into diasporic on-line fandom of 
> epic cinema as well as an anthology on Asian film festivals.

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