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Research Associate, Dynamics of World Cinema
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My work focuses on the political economy of not-for-profit media institutions - film festivals, in particular. More specifically, I am interested in the ways that institutions like film festivals negotiate their own political and artistic missions with the demands of fundraising, national cultural policy and the commercial film industry in an increasingly international and neoliberal landscape of arts funding.
Much of my research has been focused on queer collectivities like gay and lesbian film festivals, as well as other kinds of queer media including public access television, lesbian feminist pornography, and AIDS activist video.
I have also recently begun research into the relationship between film and urban development initiatives in new global cities.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
"Hard Core Shopping: Educating Consumption in S.I.R. Video Production's Lesbian Porn." The Velvet Light Trap. 59 (Spring 2007): 42-50.
"The Industry and the Ecstasy: Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals and the Economy of Community." In "Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Two. Critics Speak Out." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12, vol. 4 (2006): 617-619.
"Racializing White Drag" in Schacht, Steven P. with Lisa Underwood, eds. The Absolutely Fabulous But Flawlessly Customary World of Drag Queens and Female Impersonators. Spec. issue of Journal of Homosexuality 46 (3/4), 2004, 181-194. Reprinted in Schacht, Steven P. with Lisa Underwood, eds. The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous But Flawlessly Customary World of Drag Queens and Female Impersonators. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2004.
Reviews
Review of "Celluloid Indians by Jaqueline Kilpatrick." Scope, May 2003.
Review of "New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision, Edited by John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka and Stuart Cunningham." Scope, May 2003.
Conferences
"Lights! Cameras! Gentrify! Cinema and Neighborhood Development in New York City" Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 7-9, 2008, Philadelphia, PA.
"Promoting Visibility; The Obsolete Mission of Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals." Paper presented at the Image + Nation 20: An International Workshop on the Queer Film and Video Festival Movement, November 16-17, 2007, Montreal, Canada.
"Queer Cinema, Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals, and the Economy of Independence." Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, March 8-11, 2007, Chicago, IL.
"Larry Kramer's Checkbook." Paper presented at the Cinephilia III Conference, June 13-15, 2004, London, UK.
"Pornography/Philanthropy." Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference, May 30-June 2, 2004, New Orleans, LA.
"Southern Drag Queens in a Queer Diaspora: Public Access, Cultural Citizenship and the Queer South." Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 4-7, 2004, Atlanta, GA.
"Two Scholars, One Movie: Lan Yu at the New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival." With Rahul Hamid. Paper presented at the Cinephilia II Conference, June 16-17, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Current Research
I am currently completing a book-length project on the political economy of gay and lesbian film festivals. I am also developing an essay on film and urban gentrification in New York City, based on material presented at the 2008 Society for Cinema Studies conference. |
