scholarly journals Creative and emotional labour

2019 ◽  
pp. 128-145
Author(s):  
Alexandra Colta
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Made In

Film festival curation and programming remain highly individualistic practices, that negotiate several discourses/tensions, including the responsibility of the curator to others (artists and audiences) and the creative independence of the curator. Much remains to be written about the creative process of curation, and how aesthetic judgements are articulated by those who practice it. While progress in this direction has been made in relation to some festivals (LGBT, African), human rights film festivals have only recently started to be part of academic scholarship, which tended to focus on the main functions and spectatorship roles that they encourage (Tascón; Tascón and Wils; Davies). This article focuses on the creative process of programming human rights film festivals using the case study of Document Human Rights Film Festival in Glasgow. Part of a practice-led collaborative research project between the Universities of Glasgow, St Andrews and the festival, this article is based on my reflections and experience as a co-opted member of the programming team for the 2016 and 2017 editions. Drawing on practice-led ethnography, I argue that this festival adopted a form of ethical programming, sharing authorship and responsibility towards the audience, the filmmakers and the profession, as well as a form of emotional labour.

LGBTI Rights in Indonesia: A Human Rights Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Eleni Polymenopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Criminal Punishment ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Made In

The threat of criminal punishment of same-sex relationships has revived in Indonesia. Despite the remarkable improvements that were made in recent years, such as the Yogyakarta principles in 2007 and the organisation of the Jakarta Q-film festival, homophobia has been gradually observed throughout the country. The criminal punishment of both prostitution and homosexuality in the (Islamised) region of Aceh by virtue of local laws (perdas) and incidents such as the raid of a Jakarta gay sauna in late 2017 that resulted in several prosecutions demonstrate that the struggle for non-discrimination and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities is still ongoing in this extremely diverse country. The present paper discusses this situation, highlighting the need for Indonesia to comply with its human rights obligations.

Absence, Ambiguity, and Deviating Pleasure Activism: The Tokyo Rainbow Film Festival

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Qin QIN
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
A Site ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Whereas several Japanese popular magazines have published reports and interviews on LGBT film festival curators, little scholarship has shed light on Japanese LGBT film festivals. This article serves as a case study of how the festival enables the festival community—cinephiles, LGBT audiences, organized groups of activists, and indie filmmakers—to share ideas and coordinate within and outside the metropolis. I conduct a synchronic and diachronic study to sketch the historical trajectory of the festivalgoers, material spaces, festival formation, curation, and programming. In utilizing a methodological framework which includes geopolitics, gender, film, and organizational studies, this article proposes an approach that juxtaposes the classic concept of ‘counterpublics’ with the theoretical reading of affective politics and pleasure activism. The findings suggest that the Tokyo Rainbow Reel Film Festival functions as a site of discursive political stances and affective disposition. The ambiguity of the film festival space correlates closely with two factors: Japanese homophobia, or ‘the absence of LGBT’, and an unorthodox pleasure activism that does not include suffering and oppression.

scholarly journals Film festivals as cosmopolitan assemblages

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Monia Acciari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Associate Director

In this article, I seek to explore the use and development of the notion of cosmopolitanism within the context of film festivals. I will examine the specific case study of the Leicester Asian Film Festival from the perspective of an insider—as a Film Programmer and Associate Director of the event. The questions that I intend to answer are: what happens to our understanding of film festivals when we frame it through discourses of cosmopolitanism and borders and, conversely, what happens to our understanding of cosmopolitanism when we frame it through film festival studies? Accordingly, I will place cosmopolitanism in conversation with the developing literature on film festival studies. The aim is to offer an idea of film festivals as “cosmopolitan assemblage”, within a frame of fluidity, exchangeability and multiple functionalities (Deleuze and Guattari). In developing this concept, I will draw on Ulf Hannerz’s use of the term cosmopolitanism that includes being open to and involved with otherness. The aim is to theorise the idea of festivals as borders, and inspire new forms of consciousness and cultural competency applied to film festival programming.

More than a “Chinese Century”: The Case of International Film Festival and Awards Macao

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Jordan ◽  
Hiu Man Chan
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Event Management ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Unique Status

This paper contributes to debates around cultural event management in the Chinese century by investigating the case of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM). It first problematises the Chinese century concept by contrasting studies on film-related soft power in China as cultural diplomacy with the Macao Special Administrative Government’s use of festivals and events as place marketing strategies. It argues Macao does not fit comfortably into the soft power paradigm normally associated with China and uses the festival to illuminate areas of difference. Within this problematised context, the case study of IFFAM is built on existing studies of eventalisation as urban cultural policies. The analysis section demonstrates IFFAM differs from state-led film activities in mainland China. Findings presented and evaluated include official announcements about IFFAM by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), where the festival’s objective to ‘improve Macao’s international reputation’ are contrasted with the paradigms underpinning mainland China’s going-out international trade policy. Further findings relate to the festival’s programming strategies, and domestic and international reception of IFFAM in the past years, answering the question of whether Macao and IFFAM act as intermediaries, influencing cultural policy and film festival production practices in other regions of China and recentring film festivals’ focus from Europe to Asia. It emphasises the importance of IFFAM’s development in Macao because of its unique status and potential as an alternative, intermediary lens for observing the Chinese century.

scholarly journals From the event to the everyday: distributor-driven film festivals

2020 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2093847
Author(s):  
Stuart Richards ◽  
Lauren Carroll Harris
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
European North ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Primary Focus

Film festival research is an important field within screen and cultural studies, with festivals mainly theorised as a cinephile phenomenon occurring in European/North American contexts. Though cinephilia is indeed a major aspect of film festivals, adopting cinephilia as a primary focus for festival research obscures, and cannot explain, other motivations for running festivals, as well as how festivals fit into other trends in the film industry and film culture today. As researchers and film critics working in Australia, we have observed trends in festival culture that do not fit the dominant cinephilic framework. Principal among these trends is the emergence of Palace Cinemas, an arthouse cinema chain, and Palace Films, its distribution arm, as the curator and presenter of its own chain of film festivals. This essay presents an interesting case study that considers Palace Cinemas in relation to dominant understandings of the film festival. These film festivals do not exclusively fit either of Mark Peranson’s ideal models of festivals – audiences festivals or business festivals – but rather between these two positions. These distributor-driven film festivals, such as those run by Palace, greatly diminish any association with festival time, defined by Janet Harbord as a key feature of festivals.

The role and contribution of an intermediary organisation in the implementation of an interactive knowledge transfer model

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Gagnon ◽  
Chantale Mailhot ◽  
Saliha Ziam
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Collaborative Leadership ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Transfer Model ◽  
Research Project

Despite enthusiasm for the use of intermediation as a knowledge transfer strategy, there is little research documenting the conditions for its success. This article addresses the role of the intermediary in a collaborative research project. The focus is on how the intermediary facilitates the implementation of an interactive knowledge transfer model. Using a case study as part of a research strategy, we demonstrate that the success of a collaborative research project rests on the credibility and legitimacy of the intermediary, as well as its ability to encourage the involvement of all stakeholders. In fact, the collaborative leadership demonstrated by the intermediary helped to reconcile the various motivations of the project's stakeholders as well as their views of the project's usefulness.

scholarly journals Metacritic Practice: A Configuration of New Journalistic Narratives

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Marta Regina Maia ◽  
Rafael Fonseca Drumond ◽  
Caio Macedo Rodrigues Aniceto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Organizational Redesign ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Ongoing Effort ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives ◽  
Made In

An ongoing effort is being made in the communication field to map the possibilities of media criticism, since there are several modalities of study in this area. In this case, we propose a glance at the journalistic metacriticism that emerges from work cultures financed by alternative models - an organizational redesign that has made the circulation of new narratives about social life possible. Starting from the counter-hegemonic place that vitalizes this other journalism, methodologically, we resort to case study in consonance with the analysis of narratives produced in the context of the project: Ponte: Direitos humanos, justiça e segurança pública (Ponte: Human rights, justice and public safety).Está em andamento, no campo da comunicação, um esforço para o mapeamento das possibilidades de crítica de mídia, já que são várias as modalidades de estudo nessa área. Nesse caso, propomos um olhar sobre a metacrítica jornalística que emerge a partir de culturas de trabalho financiadas por modelos alternativos – redesenho organizacional que vem possibilitando a circulação de novas narrativas sobre o social. Partindo do lugar contra-hegemônico que vitaliza esse outro jornalismo, recorremos, metodologicamente, ao estudo de caso em consonância com a análise de narrativas produzidas no contexto do projeto Ponte: Direitos humanos, justiça e segurança pública.Está en proceso, en el campo de la comunicación, un esfuerzo para el mapeamiento de las posibilidades de crítica de los medios, ya que son diversas modalidades de estudio en esa área. En este caso, proponemos un exámen sobre la metacrítica que emerge a partir de culturas de trabajo financiadas por modelos alternativos – otro dibujo organizacional que viene posibilitando una circulación de nuevas narrativas sobre la vida social. A partir del lugar contra-hegemónico que vitaliza ese otro periodismo, emprendemos,   metodológicamente, un análisis y estudio de caso de las narrativas producidas en el contexto del proyecto del proyecto Ponte: Direitos humanos, justiça e segurança pública (Ponte: Derechos humanos, justicia y seguridad pública).

scholarly journals Agile in Higher Education - A collaborative research project report

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Mihalik
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Student Collaboration ◽  
Project Report ◽  
Agile Approach ◽  
Collaboration Project

This case study shows how complex future-oriented skills can be developed in higher education. Demonstrating a student collaboration project process, I look at adopting an agile approach in teaching and explain how a mix of methods and tools used to facilitate this type of active learning. Students were encouraged to explore different learning strategies, benefiting from the various forms of cooperation pair- and teamwork. Subsequently they individually published their own studies. Students engaged in work during the course and enjoyed experiencing different learning strategies.

THE ORIGINS OF FEMINISM AND THE LIMITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-494
Author(s):  
RUTH H. BLOCH
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Made In

The publication of the collection of essays Women, Gender and Enlightenment (ed. Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor, Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005) affords an unusual opportunity to confront a myriad of interrelated issues, at once definitional and ideological, that face intellectual historians of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and America. The 768-page work came out of a highly unusual collaborative research project conducted from 1998 to 2001, “Feminism and Enlightenment, 1650–1850: A Comparative History,” a series of colloquia, conferences, and Internet exchanges enlisting the participation of over a hundred historians in Europe, North America, and Australia. The product of this extensive interaction showcases the contributions of thirty-eight authors, not only covering a broad array of topics but, still more remarkable, displaying a large degree of consensus about issues of interpretative concern. While dozens of books and articles have anticipated pieces of the arguments made in this volume, never has so extensive an attempt been made to pull them together into a cohesive whole.

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