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Author:   Sonia Tascon ,  Tyson Wils
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781783206346

ISBN 10:   1783206349
Pages:   245
Publication Date:   05 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Sonia Tascón and Tyson Wils Section 1: Film Festivals as Platform Chapter 1: Watching Others’ Troubles: Revisiting “The Film Act” and Spectatorship in Activist Film Festivals Sonia Tascón Chapter 2: Off-Screen Activism and the Documentary Film Screening Lyell Davies Chapter 3: ITVS (Independent Television Service) Community Cinema: State-Sponsored Documentary Film Festivals, Community Engagement and Pedagogy Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli and Kristi Wilson Section 2: Contextual and Institutional Forces Chapter 4: The Revolution Will Not Be Festivalized: Documentary Film Festivals and Activism Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin Chapter 5: Human Rights Film Festivals: Different Approaches to Change the World Matthea de Jong and Daan Bronkhorst Chapter 6: Refusal to Know the Place of Human Rights: Dissensus and the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Tyson Wils Section 3: National and Regional Perspectives Chapter 7: Bristol Palestine Film Festival: Engaging the Inactive, the Aroused and the Aware David Owen Chapter 8: Reframing the Margin: Regional Film Festivals in India, a Case Study of the Cinema of Resistance Shweta Kishore Chapter 9: “Its Not Just About the Films”: Activist Film Festivals in Post-New Order Indonesia Alexandra Crosby Section 4: Identity Politics Chapter 10: imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival: Collaborative Criticism through Curatorship Davinia Thornley Chapter 11: Disability Film Festivals: Biological Identity(ies) and Heterotopia Ana Cristina Bohrer Glibert Chapter 12: “Would You Like Politics with That?” Queer Film Festival Audiences as Political Consumers Stuart Richards  

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'Sonia Tascon and Tyson Wils's edited collection Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject is not the first book devoted to the intersection of activism and film festivals (Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin's 2012 Film Festival Yearbook 4: Film Festivals and Activism can make that claim), but it does seek to expand more thoroughly, as Tascon explains, our understanding of how spectators are enveloped differently at film festivals that have an activist orientation. Activist Film Festivals thus turns its attention to the role of the spectator and their visual activism to engage with issues raised in such seminal texts as Luc Boltanski's Distant Suffering and Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others. Whereas those essays posited a particularly problematic spectatorial position in which an inequitable dynamic was evident when a powerful saviour figure viewed the suffering of a disempowered other, Tascon and Wils aim to facilitate discussions that may consider other possibilities. As a structuring principle, the editors asked the contributors to consider how the gaze of a spectator who chooses to view images of others' troubles may be configured differently through the context of consumption. Of course, for Tascon and Wils's volume, the film festival gets taken up as the privileged site of this image consumption.' -- Liz Czach (University of Alberta), Frames of Cinema Journal 'In their volume, Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject, Sonia Tascon and Tyson Wils bring together a range of academics and practitioners to explore the sociopolitical potential of activist film festivals. They state that their book was 'born of the hypothesis that different platforms for political activism may produce different audiences and that film festivals (...) having an activist orientation need to be considered more closely as they envelop a spectator differently' (p. 3). With this interesting hypothesis in mind, each of the contributors to this volume takes a closer look at one or more activist film festivals. The result is a valuable addition to the literature on festivals, activism and spectatorship - and the complex relationships between the three.' -- Emiel Martens, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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Tyson Wils is a lecturer at the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Australia.

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