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Asian American Film Festivals : Frames, Locations, and Performances of Memory / Erin Franziska Högerle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Media and Cultural Memory ; 28Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 337 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110693546
  • 9783110696653
  • 9783110696530
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43079/73 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.42.U6 H64 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Why Asian America, Film Festivals, and Memory? -- 2 Memory in Asian American Cinema -- 3 The Film Festival as Memory Network -- 4 Framing Memory: Festival Narratives -- 5 The Mise-en-Scène of Memory: Film Festivals’ Curation of Space -- 6 Performing Memory: Film Festival Actors and Communities -- 7 Conclusion: The Present and Future of Asian American Film Festivals -- 8 Appendix -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index of Terms -- Index of Film Festivals -- Index of Locations -- Index of Organizations
Dissertation note: Dissertation Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2020. Summary: Responding to a lack of studies on the film festival’s role in the production of cultural memory, this book explores different parameters through which film festivals shape our reception and memories of films. By focusing on two Asian American film festivals, this book analyzes the frames of memory that festivals create for their films, constructed through and circulated by the various festival media. It further establishes that festival locations—both cities and screening venues—play a significant role in shaping our experience of films. Finally, it shows that festivals produce performances which help guide audiences towards certain readings and direct the film’s role as a memory object. Bringing together film festival studies and memory studies, 'Asian American Film Festivals' offers a mixed-methods approach with which to explore the film festival phenomenon, thus shedding light on the complex dynamics of frames, locations, and performances shaping the festival’s memory practices. It also draws attention to the understudied genre of Asian American film festivals, showing how these festivals actively engage in constructing and performing a minority group’s collective identity and memory.

Dissertation Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2020.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Why Asian America, Film Festivals, and Memory? -- 2 Memory in Asian American Cinema -- 3 The Film Festival as Memory Network -- 4 Framing Memory: Festival Narratives -- 5 The Mise-en-Scène of Memory: Film Festivals’ Curation of Space -- 6 Performing Memory: Film Festival Actors and Communities -- 7 Conclusion: The Present and Future of Asian American Film Festivals -- 8 Appendix -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index of Terms -- Index of Film Festivals -- Index of Locations -- Index of Organizations

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Responding to a lack of studies on the film festival’s role in the production of cultural memory, this book explores different parameters through which film festivals shape our reception and memories of films. By focusing on two Asian American film festivals, this book analyzes the frames of memory that festivals create for their films, constructed through and circulated by the various festival media. It further establishes that festival locations—both cities and screening venues—play a significant role in shaping our experience of films. Finally, it shows that festivals produce performances which help guide audiences towards certain readings and direct the film’s role as a memory object. Bringing together film festival studies and memory studies, 'Asian American Film Festivals' offers a mixed-methods approach with which to explore the film festival phenomenon, thus shedding light on the complex dynamics of frames, locations, and performances shaping the festival’s memory practices. It also draws attention to the understudied genre of Asian American film festivals, showing how these festivals actively engage in constructing and performing a minority group’s collective identity and memory.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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