Dear friends and colleagues,
/Film Festivals and Imagined Communities/, the second volume of /Film
Festival Yearbook/ series is published. Please visit our website
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks to order your copy.
If you would like to review the book for a journal, please contact Ruby
Cheung at [log in to unmask]
Hope it is of interest to you!
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*/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.
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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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