Antoine Damiens is a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of English and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University (Montreal).

• Introduction, 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

Antoine Damiens is a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of English and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University (Montreal).

• Introduction, 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