The queer film ecosystem: symbolic economy, festivals, and queer cinema's legs. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Damiens, Antoine
• Is Part Of: Studies in European cinema. Volume 15:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 40
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: LGBT cinema -- Bourdieu -- festivals -- film cultures; Motion pictures -- Europe -- Periodicals; 791.4309405
• DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2018.1433001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-1548

Abstract

Abstract: This paper attends to the specificity of LGBT festivals' role in the circulation and shaping of queer cinema in Europe and America. In interrogating what Olson calls the 'queer film (festival) ecosystem' in terms of distribution and cultural value, my intervention is concerned with how films move from one circuit to another – attempting to understand LGBT cinema's currency at the intersection of queer and non-queer festivals, but also American and European markets. In combining an institutional and historical analysis with a sociological approach to taste-making, I underscore the social forces that both shape and are embedded in queer film's economy, between and across various circuits.