Theresa Heath

Queer Film Festivals and Urban Space (eBook, ePUB)

Reclaiming the City

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely and innovative book argues that queer film festivals reclaim urban space for queer women and other marginalised queer subjects through the mobilisation of both material and diegetic space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040320921
• Artikelnr.: 73426654

Autorenporträt

Theresa Heath is Vice Chancellor Independent Research Fellow at Loughborough University London, specialising in queer, feminist, and disability film festivals and cinemas; festivals, events, and urban space; disabled access in the creative and cultural industries; and disability activism. Theresa has a PhD in Film Studies from King's College London where she researched the relationship between queer film festivals and urban space in the context of increasingly neoliberal approaches to art and culture. She holds an MA in English Literature (1850-Present) from King's, where she researched queer women's writing about the city.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Urban Space Reclamation at London Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival and Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage: 1986-2000. 2. Right to the City?
Queer Film Festivals, Neoliberalism, and Urban Space. 3. Experimental
Pussies: Queer Film Festivals as Sites of Desire. 4. Running on Queer Time:
Imagining Accessible Worlds at Queer Film Festivals. 5. Queer Film
Festivals, COVID-19, and Digital Worldmaking. Conclusion. Bibliography.