Film programming politics vis-à-vis festival site politics: The case of the Mezipatra queer film festival
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23996544231168606" target="_blank" >10.1177/23996544231168606</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Film programming politics vis-à-vis festival site politics: The case of the Mezipatra queer film festival
Original language description
This paper belongs to the sub-field of queer geography. It is a spatially sensitive study of queer film festival programming that relates its politics to the affective politics of the site. It focuses on the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, which is a film festival that takes place in the cities of Prague and Brno, Czech Republic. We differentiate between intentional subject-centred programming politics and de-subjectivated festival site politics. The film programme is created by a single organizing team and is the same for both cities. Still, the programme means different things to each of them. According to programming theories, we distinguish between films of traditional assimilationist, even homonormative, programming, and films of anti-identity queer programming. The different status of the two festival incarnations makes the former more appropriate for Brno, whereas the latter is more appropriate for Prague. Yet, in Brno, the assimilationist identity politics is turned into an autonomous community politics through the festival site. In Prague, the queer politics is turned into a politics of competition among art film festivals. Hence, we go beyond critiques of homonormative cinema as depoliticized and consumerist. The problem is not the difference between “better” queer programming and “worse” traditional programming. The problem lies in discerning site politics as shaping different screenings of the same films, whether they are homonormative or art-house queer films.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
ISSN
2399-6544
e-ISSN
2399-6552
Volume of the periodical
41
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
993-1009
UT code for WoS article
000961155200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85152580036