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

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De Valck, Marijke and Antoine Damiens, eds. /Rethinking Film Festivals 
in the Pandemic Era and After. /Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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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.**
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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.
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*Table of content:*

Chapter 1: What Happens When Festivals Can’t Happen?
Antoine Damiens and Marijke de Valck
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*Part I:**Contaminated Circuits: Covid-19 and the Festival Ecosystem*
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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
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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
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Chapter 7: Chilean Film Festivals and Local Audiences: Going Online?
María Paz Peirano and Gonzalo Ramírez
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*Part II: **Experimenting on the Frontlines: Innovative Responses to the 
Crisis*
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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

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Chapter 11: Film Festivals in Taiwan: Lurking on the Periphery
Beth Tsai

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Chapter 12: Precarity, Innovation and Survival in the Indian Film 
Festival Sector
Tilottama Karlekar
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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*
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Chapter 14: Towards Decolonized Film Festival Worlds
Lindiwe Dovey and Estrella Sendra
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Chapter 15: Festivals, Covid-19, and the Crisis of Archiving
Antoine Damiens

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



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