[ecrea] Book: The Queer Film Festival

I would just like to share that my book is currently out as part of 
Palgrave’s ‘Framing Film Festival’ series:


http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137590343

This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on 
social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender 
and intersex (LGBTI) organisations. With over 220 events worldwide and 
some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the queer film festival 
has grown to become a staple event in all cosmopolitan cities’ arts 
calendars. While activism was instrumental in establishing these 
festivals, the pink dollar has been a deciding factor in its financial 
sustainability. Pretty gay boys with chiselled abs are a staple feature, 
rather than underground experimental faire. Community arts events, such 
as these, are now a creative industry. While clearly having a social 
purpose, they must also concern themselves with the bottom line. For all 
the contradictory elements of its organisational growth, this conflict 
makes the queer film festival an integral site for analysis. This book 
takes a multidisciplinary approach in examining the queer film festival 
as a representative snapshot of the current state of queer cinema and 
community based film festivals. The book looks at queer film festivals 
in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Melbourne to argue for the importance of 
these institutions remaining as community events.



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