International Film Festivals

Tricia Jenkins is Associate Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University, USA, where she teaches classes on film festivals and media studies. She has participated in the American Pavilion Program at the Cannes International Film Festival and serves the Hill Country Film Festival and the Lone Star Film Festival as a film panel moderator and social media marketer. She is also the Book Reviews editor of The Journal of Popular Culture, the author of The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television (2016), as well as numerous other peer-reviewed articles on film and television.

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Introduction
Section I. (Re) Conceptualizing the Film Festival: Contemporary Practices
1. “You Had to Be There:” Film Festival “Liveness” and the Digitally Connected Audience
2. New Perspectives for Online Film Festivals
3. The Fully Clickable Situation: From Tyranny to Monopoly to a Filmfreeway
4. Constructing Film Festival Audiences: Performative Practices and Material Conditions
5. Genre Film Festivals and Rethinking the Definition of “The Festival Film”
Section II. (Re) Assessing the Past: Historical Approaches to the Film Festival
6. A Transnational Love–Hate Relationship: The FIAPF and the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals (1950–1970)
7. Screens for Historical Awareness: Festivals and the Patrimonialization of Film Art in France before 1968
8. Queer Capital, Queer Culture: Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals in the 1990s
9. Visible Art, Invisible Nations? On the Politics of Film Festivals, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Taiwan New Cinema
10. The Urban and Cultural Functions of the Gdynia Film Festival
Section III. with Festival Insiders
11. Building IFF Panama from the Ground Up: An Interview with Executive Director Pituka Ortega-Heilbron and Artistic Director Diana Sánchez
12. Perspectives from a Mexican Newcomer: An Interview with Daniela Michel and Chloë Roddick of the Morelia International Film Festival

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