Marijke de Valck is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She is a well-known specialist of film festival studies and author of Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (2007). She co-founded the Film Festival Research Network and is co-editor of the book series Framing Film Festivals.

Brendan Kredell is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oakland University. His research focuses on media and urban studies, an area in which he has published widely. He received a Fulbright fellowship for his work on culture-led urban redevelopment and the Toronto International Film Festival.

Skadi Loist is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media Research of the University of Rostock. She co-founded the Film Festival Research Network and serves as member of the Steering Committee of NECS. Her research interests include film festivals, queer cinema and media industries. She has worked with the Hamburg International Queer Film Festival since 2002.

Preface

The Film Festival and Film Culture¿s Transnational Essence

Dina Iordanova

Introduction

What is a Film Festival? How to Study Festivals and Why You Should

Marijke de Valck

Part I

History

Introduction

Brendan Kredell

1 Making Film History at the Cannes film festival

Dorota Ostrowska

2 Film Festivals in Asia: Notes on History, Geography and Power from a Distance

Julian Stringer

3 The Film Festival Circuit: Networks, Hierarchies, and Circulation

Skadi Loist

Part II

Theory

Introduction

Marijke de Valck

4 Contingency, Time and Event: An Archaeological Approach to the Film Festival

Janet Harbord

5 Publics and Counterpublics: Rethinking Film Festivals as Public Spheres

Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong

6 Fostering Art, Adding Value, Cultivating Taste: Film Festivals as Sites of Cultural Legitimization

Marijke de Valck

Part III

Method

Introduction

Skadi Loist

7 Being There, Taking Place: Ethnography at the Film Festival

Toby Lee

8 On Studying Film Festival Ephemera: The Case of Queer Film Festivals and Archives of Feelings

Ger Zielinski

9 Positionality and Film Festival Research: A Conversation

Diane Burgess and Brendan Kredell

Part IV

Practice

Introduction

Brendan Kredell

10 Seeing Differently: The Curatorial Potential of Film Festival Programming

Roya Rastegar

11 Affective Labor and the Work of Film Festival Programming

Liz Czach

12 "The Festival Film": Film Festival Funds as Cultural Intermediaries

Tamara L. Falicov