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Usborne Books Lunar New Year Magic Painting Book
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The History Press Ltd Puck Fair: A History
Book SynopsisPuck Fair, Ireland’s oldest festival, was established by a royal patent in October 1613, granted to the Welsh planter, Jenkyn Conway, of Killorglin. It first became a famous, however, as a result of the parading and display of a male goat, which is awarded a crown and named as the King of the Town. 2013 saw the celebration of Puck Fair’s 400 year anniversary, which was promoted and celebrated as part of The Gathering. This book was launched in August of that year, as part of these festivities.
£13.49
Authentic Media Celebrations: All Age Worship
Book SynopsisThis book is a readytouse resource for allage worship services on the theme of celebrations. Using a wide range of innovative teaching activities, users will be able to simply and easily put on family services. It includes drama, poetry, prayers, activity ideas and lots of humor. It will make life easy for those in charge of planning allage worship. You can either use the ideas straight from the page or adapt them by adding your own ideas. Celebrations covered New Years, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, Harvest, Advent and Christmas.
£12.23
University of Huddersfield Explosions in November: The first 33 years of
Book SynopsisExplosions in November tells the story of one of Europes leading cultural institutions, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf), through the eyes of its founder and former artistic director, Professor Richard Steinitz. From its modest beginnings in 1978, when winter fog nearly sabotaged the inaugural programme, to todays internationally renowned event, hcmf has been a pioneering champion of the best in contemporary music.Now Richard Steinitz brings his insider view on the people behind the festival and how they made each year a success. He recalls his encounters with some true giants of music, including Boulez, Berio, Cage, Ligeti, Stockhausen and Xenakis. Discover how the author survived mushroom-hunting with John Cage, how the festival engineered a historic reconciliation between Cage and Pierre Boulez and how a ceiling fitting nearly brought Stockhausens career to a premature end. It is a compelling, inspiring and often entertaining story. Explosions in November reveals the full picture of a festival that continues to surprise, delight and provoke its audiences to this day.Table of ContentsPreface; Background; The first festivals; Expansion; Orchestras; Ensembles and soloists; The shock of the new; Composers; Premiers and commissions; The festival in the 1990s; Venues; Other spaces, other media; Education and outreach; The University and the music department; Marketing and audiences; Partnerships and management; The new millennium; Endnotes; Appendices; Index.
£27.00
Seagull Books London Ltd On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at
Book SynopsisDuring the week before Labor Day every year, nearly fifty thousand people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a forty-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. In "On the Edge of Utopia", Rachel Bowditch - performer, theater director, scholar, and Burning Man participant - explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle, the profane to the sublime. Bowditch argues that Burning Man can be understood as a contemporary galaxy of happenings, a revival of the ancient Roman Saturnalia, a site for rehearsals of utopia, and a secular pilgrimage. As Burning Man continues to grow, it will create new paradigms for performance, installation art, community, and invented rituals that bridge ancient traditions to the twenty-first century.
£25.17
Medina Publishing Ltd When the World Came to the Isle of Wight: Volume
Book SynopsisFor a time, the Isle of Wight Festivals transformed a sleepy English island into the rock'n'roll capital of the world. From promoting a one-nighter in 1968, to raise funds for a local swimming pool, the young Foulk brothers were able to out-perform Woodstock, by signing the world-exclusive appearance of rock's poet laureate, Bob Dylan. The de facto leader of the counterculture had been hidden away in the artist-town of Woodstock, rarely seen after a motor cycle accident three years earlier. He turned his back on the eponymous festival, put there to persuade him to come out and play, but Dylan left for Europe on the day their event began. For the Foulk brothers - lacking experience, resources and time - the coup and ensuing public response was almost overwhelming, but with audacious bravado and steely determination they delivered the most awaited event of the era. Devotees from hippies to celebrities flocked to the Island from mainland Britain, Europe, the Americas and as far away as Australia. As well as changing the lives of Ray and his brothers the phenomenon played its part in a highly transformative period for Bob Dylan, in which the Isle of Wight remained his one and only full concert appearance in seven-and-a-half years.
£20.66
Goodfellow Publishers Limited Focus On Festivals: Contemporary European case
Book SynopsisThis book presents a contemporary overview of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. It is able to do so by taking a powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach. It comes from a hugely expert and experienced team of editors and authors drawn from across Europe and is based on the groundbreaking work of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP). The EFRP and the book are focused on understanding the causes and implications of the current growth in festivals internationally, and the implications this has across major sectors ranging from tourism to culture. The key themes the books brings out are: •The politics, programming, impacts, governance and management of festivals; •The social, cultural, political, economic and physical contexts in which festivals operate; •The potential of festivals to explore and stimulate a more risk-oriented approach to the arts; •Key conclusions, trends, forecasts and recommendations for the sector in the future. The exciting range of real world examples and the mix of practical and academic contributions provides readers with a broad perspective across agendas from economic regeneration and tourism, to education and social inclusion. An indispensable text for students in arts and festival management, events, tourism, hospitality and cultural policy and management courses. It is also essential reading for festival and events managers, public authorities and existing and potential sponsors.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Focusing on Festivals (Newbold, Jordan, Bianchini & Maughan); Section 1. Perspectives and Debates: Introduction (Maughan & Jordan); Festivals – Why – What – When? A case study of Berlin (Hertling); Festivalisation: patterns and limits (Négrier); Festivals, Urbanity and the Public Sphere: reflections on European festivals (Sassatelli); Festivals, Conformity and Socialisation (Szabó); Festivals as Communities of Practice: learning by doing and knowledge networks amongst artist (Comunian); Festivals of Transition: Greenlight Festival, Leicester (Fletcher); Section 2. Leadership and Management: Introduction (Jordan); How to Flow: a case study on an urban music festival in Helsinki (Silvanto); Romaeuropa Festival: a case study (Argano); Festival Leadership in Turbulent Times (Jordan); The Mladi levi Festival, Ljubljana: a case study (Koprivsek); The Diggers’ Festival: key issues in organising a community festival that has ‘political’ connotations (Norton); Volunteering for Festivals: why and how? ( Autissier); Festival City – Rotterdam (Dooghe); Section 3. Impacts, Communities and Places: Introduction (Newbold); The Enchanted City, The Festive Week in Holstebro: an experiential and social cultural space (Winkelhorn); Operaestate Festival Veneto: a socio-cultural and economic analysis (Carnelli); Street Performances: the perverse effects of festivals (Gaber); Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism: a UK perspective (Fu, Long & Thomas); Mela in the UK: a ‘travelled’ and ‘habituated’ festival (Kaushal & Newbold); A View from Australia (Archer); Section 4. The Future of Festivals: Introduction (Bianchini & Maughan); Festivals in the Network Society (Richards); The Public Festival: inspiration and interconnectivity at the heart of festivals (Deventer); ‘Belonging and Unbelonging’: the cultural purpose of festivals (Gordziejko); Transnational Festivals, a European Alternative: Les Boreales and Reims Scenes d’Europe (Autissier); Some Thoughts on the Future of European Festivals (Faivre d’Arcier); Some Reflections on the Future of Festival Practice in Europe (Austen); Index
£90.25
Goodfellow Publishers Limited Focus On Festivals: Contemporary European case
Book SynopsisThis book presents a contemporary overview of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. It is able to do so by taking a powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach. It comes from a hugely expert and experienced team of editors and authors drawn from across Europe and is based on the groundbreaking work of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP). The EFRP and the book are focused on understanding the causes and implications of the current growth in festivals internationally, and the implications this has across major sectors ranging from tourism to culture. The key themes the books brings out are: •The politics, programming, impacts, governance and management of festivals; •The social, cultural, political, economic and physical contexts in which festivals operate; •The potential of festivals to explore and stimulate a more risk-oriented approach to the arts; •Key conclusions, trends, forecasts and recommendations for the sector in the future. The exciting range of real world examples and the mix of practical and academic contributions provides readers with a broad perspective across agendas from economic regeneration and tourism, to education and social inclusion. An indispensable text for students in arts and festival management, events, tourism, hospitality and cultural policy and management courses. It is also essential reading for festival and events managers, public authorities and existing and potential sponsors.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Focusing on Festivals (Newbold, Jordan, Bianchini & Maughan); Section 1. Perspectives and Debates: Introduction (Maughan & Jordan); Festivals – Why – What – When? A case study of Berlin (Hertling); Festivalisation: patterns and limits (Négrier); Festivals, Urbanity and the Public Sphere: reflections on European festivals (Sassatelli); Festivals, Conformity and Socialisation (Szabó); Festivals as Communities of Practice: learning by doing and knowledge networks amongst artist (Comunian); Festivals of Transition: Greenlight Festival, Leicester (Fletcher); Section 2. Leadership and Management: Introduction (Jordan); How to Flow: a case study on an urban music festival in Helsinki (Silvanto); Romaeuropa Festival: a case study (Argano); Festival Leadership in Turbulent Times (Jordan); The Mladi levi Festival, Ljubljana: a case study (Koprivsek); The Diggers’ Festival: key issues in organising a community festival that has ‘political’ connotations (Norton); Volunteering for Festivals: why and how? ( Autissier); Festival City – Rotterdam (Dooghe); Section 3. Impacts, Communities and Places: Introduction (Newbold); The Enchanted City, The Festive Week in Holstebro: an experiential and social cultural space (Winkelhorn); Operaestate Festival Veneto: a socio-cultural and economic analysis (Carnelli); Street Performances: the perverse effects of festivals (Gaber); Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism: a UK perspective (Fu, Long & Thomas); Mela in the UK: a ‘travelled’ and ‘habituated’ festival (Kaushal & Newbold); A View from Australia (Archer); Section 4. The Future of Festivals: Introduction (Bianchini & Maughan); Festivals in the Network Society (Richards); The Public Festival: inspiration and interconnectivity at the heart of festivals (Deventer); ‘Belonging and Unbelonging’: the cultural purpose of festivals (Gordziejko); Transnational Festivals, a European Alternative: Les Boreales and Reims Scenes d’Europe (Autissier); Some Thoughts on the Future of European Festivals (Faivre d’Arcier); Some Reflections on the Future of Festival Practice in Europe (Austen); Index
£35.14
Goodfellow Publishers Limited Focus On World Festivals: Contemporary case
Book SynopsisFocus on World Festivals: Contemporary case studies and perspectives provides the reader with a contemporary overview of festival activity from around the world based on over 30 case studies drawn from every continent. Through its case-study focus this book can be utilised in several ways; to examine different types and genres of festivals across the world; to consider in detail specific festivals in specific contexts; to look at management and organisational issues in festival provision, and to illustrate debates and theories pertaining to festivals throughout the world. This book is a companion to 'Focus on Festivals', it is written by a varied mix of academics, practitioners and cultural commentators. It expands many of the central themes and issues to reach a global understanding of festivals. The key themes this book discusses are: * The nature of festivals, festivalisation and the growth of festival provision around the world * Interest in festival’s potential economic, social, place-making and political impacts * Festivals as ‘glocal’ players * The relationship between festivals and tourism * The management and business of festivals in different locations responding to differing social, political and market contexts * The role of festivals in identity making *Festivals as sites of participation, co-creation and experiences It is a dynamic and indispensable text for students in arts and festivals management, events, tourism, creative industries, cultural and public policy, music industry and management courses as well as for festival and events managers, public authorities and existing and potential sponsors. Through the variety of festivals illustrated in this book, the reader will discover that much about the nature of festivals crosses borders, they are a recognisable and growing part of societal and cultural delivery around the globe; their impacts, economic, social and cultural are a major driver in their development; their popularity with audiences, arts organisations and performers is undiminished in this ever-expanding cultural phenomenon of festivals..Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction: Focusing on World Festivals (Chris Newbold and Jennie Jordan); Section 1: Understanding Festivals: Introduction (Jennie Jordan); Ch 1 The Festivalisation of Contemporary life Jennie Jordan); Ch 2 The place to be … global. Local roots of world festivals (Emmanuel Négrier and Aurélien Djakouane); Ch 3 Norwegian Festivals and a Music Economy in Transition Daniel Nordgård); Ch 4 Animating Places a New Festival Phenomenon? (Maurice Maguire); Ch 5 Visual Art Festivals and Globalisation: the rise of the biennials (Monica Sassatelli); Ch 6 Republic of the Imagination: Burning Man and the culture of radical self-expression (Rachel Bowditch); Section 2: Managing Festivals and Festival Policy: Introduction (Jennie Jordan); Ch 7 Leicester ‘Festival City’ or a City with Festivals (Simon Brown); Ch 8 The Evolution and Future Prospects of the Taiwan Lantern Festival (Alison Huang) Ch 9 Galway International Arts Festival: what’s behind the internationalisation of a name (Silvia Guglielmini); Ch 10 Rock in Rio: the festival (Vanessa Martin); Ch 11 Building the Festival Team: A case-study of Saint Petersburg (Svetlana Puchkova and Elena Elkanova); Ch 12 Large Festivals – Great Struggles (János Zoltán Szabó); Ch 13 Community Perceptions on the Impacts of Art Festivals and its Impact on Overall Quality of Life: A case study of the Innibos National Arts Festival, South Africa (Mathilda van Niekerk); Ch 14 Valuing Arts Festivals: economic impact and the South African National Arts Festival (Jen D. Snowball); Ch 15 Festivals on the High Street: revitalising business and communities in the UK (Roberta Comunian, Lydia Fraser-Ward and Silvie Jacobi); Ch 16 Are You Having A Laugh? Comedy, a new face for festivals in the 21st Century? (Christopher Maughan and Ljiljana Radošević); Section 3: Using Festivals: Culture and Identity: Introduction (Chris Newbold); Ch 17 ‘Appealing for Grace’: The Guinea Corn (Kayuji) Festival of Northern Ghana (Samuel Ntewusu); Ch 18 Visualising National Life: The Hornbill Festival as culture and politics (Arkotong Longkumer); Ch 19 The World’s largest water fight, or the battle for the soul of a festival: Songkran in Thailand and South East Asia (Chris Newbold); Ch 20 China: rehabilitating festivals (Chris Newbold and Meng Xiang); Ch 21 Street Festivals that Change life: festivals in Iran, Kuwait, and Belorussia (Floriane Gaber); Ch 22 A Holy Week Carnival? The Iberoamerican Theatre Festival of Bogotá (Paolo Vignolo); Ch 23 Dia de los Muertos and its Representation of ‘Calaveras’ in Contemporary Art and Culture (Emily Bradfield); Ch 24 Commemorating the Ancestors: performances of death at the Tucson All Souls’ Procession (Rachel Bowditch); Ch 25 Off the Beaten Track: The Garma Festival in the Northern Territory Australia (Robyn Archer); Ch 26 The Parkes Elvis Festival: attendee and host community perspectives (Katie Schlenker, Carmel Foley and Eve Carroll-Dwyer); Ch 27 “We have been called Carnival People”: carnival within the festive celebrations of Trinidad and Tobago (Milla C. Riggio); Index
£35.14
Fircone Books Ltd Three Choirs Festival in ten concerts
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£12.34
Goodfellow Publishers Limited Principles of Festival Management
Book SynopsisPrinciples of Festival Management is a complete guide to developing and running a festival from inception to evaluation, covering all aspects of festival management and key central issues and contemporary debates. It focuses on the practical skills and knowledge needed for successful festival management, with a step by step approach to the planning, managing and staging processes. Theoretically underpinned, it provides a combination of management perspectives, practical advice and festival studies understandings across a diverse range of festivals, art-forms, audiences, locations, impacts and business models, enabling readers to think critically about the many challenges facing festivals managers. Principles of Festival Management provides the reader with a single port of call for developing and running a festival from inception to evaluation, covering all aspects of festivals management and discussing the key central issues and contemporary debates (such as financing, volunteering, security and much more). It is a vital resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics in the fields of events, festivals, arts, music industry and cultural management and leisure and tourism studies, as well as early career festivals managers and employees.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is a Festival and Festival Management? Chapter 1 Festival Management: Roles and structures Chapter 2 Festival Design Chapter 3 Planning, Logistics and Management Chapter 4 Funding the Festival and Creating Your Festival Budget Chapter 5 Festival Operations Chapter 6 Managing Human Resources Chapter 7 Festival Marketing Chapter 8 Festivals and the Law Chapter 9 Research and Evaluation Chapter 10 Managing Festivals in the Digital World Bibliography Subject Index
£35.14
Unicorn Publishing Group Everything That Happened: Manchester
Book SynopsisManchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from disused railway stations to atmospheric concert halls. It's crossed boundaries and artistic disciplines, leapt over them, determinedly broken them down, to create unique productions that have gone on to tour the world. Radical and unpredictable, the Festival started in 2007 and has been on every two years since. Everything That Happened is a celebration of that journey to date. With selected images from the last eight iconic Festivals, the book will showcase the extraordinarily ambitious work that has made MIF a landmark cultural event and will continue to do so at its new permanent home. Each image is accompanied by a reflection from an artist, a participant, a supporter or audience member capturing a unique voice and personal meditation on that moment.Trade Review“From Marta Minujín’s toppled Big Ben made of books to Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth in a deconsecrated church to Skepta’s dystopian mixed reality rave in a railway depot, it has been a joy to revisit some of our most celebrated festival moments in this book marking 16 years of extraordinary world firsts in Manchester, ahead of the opening of our landmark new year-round venue in the heart of the city.” John McGrath, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Factory International and Manchester International Festival
£25.50
Redcliffe Press Ltd The Festivals of Cornwall: Ritual, Revival,
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£22.50
Tippermuir Books Limited The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
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£11.39
Hoberman Collection Kaapse Klopse: Cape Town Minstrel Carnival,
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£23.88
Brepols N.V. Festival and Violence: Princely Entries in the
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£76.95
Campus Verlag Welcome Home, Boys!: Military Victory Parades in
Book SynopsisDuring the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory - ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incisive new study, Sebastian Jobs approaches these events as political street theater. Focusing on organizers, spectators, and soldiers, Jobs explores each group's participation in the action, as well as the ways in which they interacted with each another. This book also demonstrates how abstract concepts, like the nation-state, were embodied in these events and how these political performances made an impact on American culture and society.
£48.70
DruckVerlag Kettler Römer + Römer: Burning Man/Electric Sky
Book SynopsisWhat began as a small bonfire on a beach in San Francisco in 1986 has evolved into a cultural phenomenon of epic dimensions - the Burning Man event in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. At the end of August every year, around 70,000 people come together at Black Rock City, a temporary city in the desert that exists only for eight days. The event, which features hundreds of interactive art installations, art cars, and performances, culminates in the burning of the "Man", a 40-feet tall effigy that is the centrepiece of the celebration. In 2017, the Berlin artist couple Römer + Römer travelled to Nevada to take part in the event. Using a complex technique, they subsequently converted their photos of the festival into a series of striking large-format panel paintings that capture the utopian spirit and carnivalesque essence of Burning Man. Text in English and German.
£40.00
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Celebrate!: The Greatest Festivals around the
Book SynopsisEvery culture likes to party. Traditional celebrations, whether the Hindu Holi Festival or the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival, have travelled beyond their origins to become international phenomena. Whether seasonal or religious, such holidays represent the human need for authentic experience, direct encounter, and a sense of time or the spiritual. This volume leads readers back to the roots of these annual events and festivals, exploring their history, meanings, and evolutions. With vibrant photographs as well as practical information on each featured event, it’s a captivating journey of cultural exploration and joie de vivre. Text in English and German.Table of ContentsCarnival The Elements Arts & Culture The Seasons Religion & Spirituality The Circle of Life National Holidays Pride, Peace & Tolerance Food Festivals Sports Music
£22.46
Library of Tibetan Works & Archives Festival of Tibet
Book SynopsisTalking about festivals such as Losar - the Tibetan new year, SMon Lam - the great prayer festival, Sga Dawa - Buddha's descent, and others, this book attempts to capture the true essence of Tibetan festive traditions.
£6.99
Promopress Fiesta: The Branding and Identity for Festivals
Book SynopsisFiesta: Branding and Identity of Festivals is a compilation of remarkable branding designs and campaigns for a variety of renowned festivals from around the world. The festivals examined span the worlds of music, cinema, design, gastronomy, culture, and art. These topics, and the freedom of creativity that come with them, allow to explore the limits of design, without the restraints that come with commercial projects. The identity and communication campaign strategies deployed by festivals encompass an endless array of design techniques, from graphic elements such as logos, posters, web pages, advertisements, mobile apps, tickets, and wristbands to collectible items like T- shirts, bags, and cups. This volume will inspire and serve as a useful tool for graphic designers and branding agencies that seek to handle challenging and wide-ranging festival projects with the highest degree of creativity and imagination, as well as for festival organizers and anyone interested in visual culture in general and eager to learn about new trends. The events featured show that the success of a festival has a close connection to its tailor- made branding and design and that no matter what the subject of the festival is, it is essential to have a coherent identity strategy.
£31.99
Mapin Celebrating Rahim Abdur Rahim KhaniKhanan
Book SynopsisAbdur Rahim Khan-i- Khanan (1556-1627) was referred to in Mughal records as the `noble of nobles', and was praised in the verses of his contemporaries as a patron of legendary generosity and erudition. An unmatched soldier and statesman, Rahim served Akbar and Jahangir, and commanded Shah Jahan's imperial army on the battle field.
£36.00
Amsterdam University Press Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective
Book SynopsisTo what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through anti-binary and inclusive idioms of gender and sexuality. These ideals are moreover channelled through a series of organisational and cultural practices that aim at the emergence of queer as a collective identity. Through the study of festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen, and Oslo, Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe thoughtfully analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.Trade Review"Among the many merits of this rich study is also its great readability, including to nonspecialists of social movement sociology, queer theory, or gender and sexuality studies. [...] Eleftheriadis’s Queer Festivals provides an innovative perspective on the realities of the oft-evoked yet insufficiently known queer movement, which is too frequently conflated with queer theory—while "queer" increasingly tends to be loosely applied to characterize any LGBT movements and festivals. One of the book’s theoretical ambitions is indeed to clarify the link between queer festivals and queer theory. This goal is successfully reached, as is that of accounting for the interplay between discourses and practices in the formation of a festival’s publics and the performance of its identity work."- Guillaume Marche, Journal of Festive Studies 3 (2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Queer Festivals and the Anti-Identity Paradox: Transnational collective identities beyond the state 2. The origins of queer festivals in Europe 3. Organizing the queer space: Squats, Horizontality and Do-It-Yourself 4. What is 'queer' about queer festivals?: Negotiating Identity and Autonomy 5. 'Not yet queer enough': Constructing Identity through culture 6. Queering Transnationalism 7. Anti-identity, Politics and the State: Queer Challenges and Future Directions Appendix References Index
£101.65
Amsterdam University Press LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness
Book SynopsisWhile scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events. In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBTQ festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical apparatuses. As the first 'critique' of festival studies from within, LGBTQ Film Festivals argues that both festivals and queer film cultures are by definition ephemeral. The book is organized around two concepts: First, 'critical festival studies' examines the political project and disciplinary assumptions that structure festival research. Second, 'the festival as a method' pays attention to festivals' role as producers of knowledge: it argues that festivals are not mere objects of research but also actors already shaping academic, industrial, and popular cinematic knowledge. Drawing on the author's experience on the festival circuit, this book pays homage to the labour of queer organizers, critics, and scholars and opens up new avenues for festival research.Trade Review"LGBTQ Film Festivals lays bare the extent to which film festival studies’ theories and methods frequently reduce queer film festivals to being “merely” about identity instead of perceiving these festivals as central to our understanding of how knowledge is produced."- Jonathan Petrychyn (University of Waterloo), Media Industries 8, 1 (2021) "Mit seiner brillanten Arbeit, deren hoher theoretischer Anspruch absolut eingelöst wird, katapultiert sich Damiens in die Riege der internationalen Queerfilmfestivalforschung, von der so wichtige Impulse für die Festivalforschung insgesamt ausgehen. Seine Argumentation ist schlüssig und nachvollziehbar, das Buch sehr gut lesbar. Mit seiner hervorragenden Arbeit demonstriert Damiens, dass wir von diesem exzellenten Forscher noch einiges zu erwarten haben."- Dagmar Brunow, Växjö, MEDIENwissenschaft, issue 01/2021 "With his exhaustive research and intricate attention to detail, Damiens has chronicled a vital history of LGBTQ film fests, adeptly capturing a doubly marginalized culture, ghosts and all. In this moment of pause, reflection and reinvention for film festivals, it’s a book we needed."- Matthew Hays, Cineaste, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (2020) "An engaging and original history of queer film festivals and an insider critique of festival studies at large. Damiens has excavated our archives and offered a colourful tapestry of LGBTQ+ struggles over half a century, probing both the friendship and the activism at their core."- Thomas Waugh, Concordia University, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction. Festivals, Uncut: Queering Festival Studies, Curating LGBTQ Film Festivals. -Pre-screening: constituting festival studies -Queering festival studies: critical festival studies and the festival as a method -Labour of love: desiring scholars/festivals -The cut: a note on methodology -Curating the book -Speaking in queer tongues: a note on terminology Chapter 1. Festivals that (did not) Matter: Festivals' Archival Practices and the Field Imaginary of Festival Studies. -Cruising the archives -Compromising evidences: ephemeral traces in the archives -Unpacking the archives: (dis)ordering ephemeral traces -Festivals that did not matter: festivals' archival practices and historiography -Making history: on queer festival studies' historical project -Festivals that matter: festival studies' field imaginary, methods, and political project -'Doing justice' to ghosts: critical festival studies Chapter 2. The Queer Film Ecosystem: Symbolic Economy, Festivals, and Queer Cinema's Legs -Now you can see it= early gay and lesbian festivals, film cultures, and film distribution -Soon at a theatre near you= Towards LGBTQ distribution -Cultural fields: regimes of taste, queer relays, and the queer film ecosystem -Distribution: queer film cultures, relays, and cultural fields -Geographic relays: cultural fields in Europe and in America Chapter 3. Out of the Celluloid Closet, into the Theatres! Towards a Genealogy of Queer Film Festivals and Gay and Lesbian Film Studies -1970s: critics/scholars, curation as a praxis of canon-building, and gay and lesbian cinemas -1980s: Cruising the protest, organizing gay and lesbian cinema -1990s: Professionalizing queer cinema, disciplining scholars -Festival as object / field of research: insider/outsider and critical festival studies Chapter 4. Festivals as Archives: Collective Memory and LGBTQ Festivals' Temporality -'I like to watch=': queer festivals' visual architectures -Festivals' visual architectures, temporality, and cultural memory -Festivals as archives: temporality and festivals' curatorial practices -Festivals as archivists: documenting, representing and historicizing festivals. -'Films bring us together': archives of feeling, affect, and queer cultural memory Chapter 5. Images+Translation: Imagining Queerness and its Homoscapes -Centre/periphery, festival tours, and festivals' geopolitical imaginary -Festivals, gay languages, and the globalization of sexuality -Film as gay language -Catalogues, gay languages, and world-making: LGBTQ festivals and the globalization of sexuality -Festivals as homoscapes: LGBTQ festivals, reverberations, and the disjunctive nature of globalization Conclusion. The Impossibility of Festival Studies? On the Temporalities of Field Intervention and the Queering of Festival Studies -The paradoxes of identity: doing justice to LGBTQ festivals Bibliography Filmography Index
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The American University in Cairo Press Egyptian Customs And Festivals
Book SynopsisHow do Egyptian Muslims celebrate Ramadan? How do Copts—Egyptian Christians—celebrate Easter? What should you expect to find on the table when invited to eat in an Egyptian home? What do you say when an Egyptian colleague sneezes? Exactly what do Egyptians do with a mortar and pestle, a sieve, and a bag of nuts seven days after the birth of a baby?Samia Abdennour, once an outsider from Palestine, now thoroughly at home in Egypt, is here to tell you all about these matters—and many more. In a book that aims to introduce the unfamiliar newcomer or interested foreign reader to the hows, whats, and whys of Egyptians life, the author covers such diverse topics as birth, marriage, and death; religious festivals and fasting; food in the home and on the street; business etiquette and terms of politeness. She describes how some traditions differ between the two religious communities, the Muslims and the Copts, and how some customs are shared by all Egyptians—like the spring festival of Shamm al-Nisim (‘smelling the breezes’) that goes back to pharaonic times.With Egyptian Customs and Festivals, you need never be at a loss in a social situation in Egypt—or fail to understand what your neighbors are up to. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of daily life and special occasions, this fascinating and informative book is a must-have for anyone new to Egyptian culture.
£12.34
