TY  - JOUR
A1  - Högerle, Erin
T1  - Networks, locations and frames of memory in Asian American film festivals
T2  - Journal of aesthetics & culture
N2  - Ascribing to the premise that film festivals are crucial to the production of cultural memory, this article explores different parameters through which festivals shape our reception of films. In its focus on the Asian American film festival CAAMFest, the article reveals that festivals are part of a complex network of actors whose different agendas influence the narratives produced around the film, direct its role as memory object and encourage memories to travel. What is more, it shows that festival locations—from the city in which a festival takes place to the concrete venue in which a film is screened—play a significant role in shaping our experience and understanding of films. Finally, it establishes that festivals create frames for their films, constructed through and circulated by the various festival media and live performances at the festival events. Bringing together film festival studies and memory studies, the article makes use of an interdisciplinary approach with which to explore the film festival phenomenon, thus shedding light on the complex dynamics of acts of framing, locations and networks of actors shaping the festival’s memory production. It also draws attention to the understudied phenomenon of Asian American film festivals, showing how such a festival may actively engage in constructing and performing a minority group’s collective identity and memory.
KW  - film festivals
KW  - films
KW  - Asian American
KW  - heritage
KW  - memory networks
KW  - locations
KW  - exhibition spaces
KW  - reception
KW  - memory frames
KW  - commemoration
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53210
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-532101
SN  - 2000-4214
N1  - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 11
IS  - Article: 1623631
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - London
ER  -