"The Hold Out": The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival and Exhibition as Protest

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dc.contributor.advisorAlilunas, Peter
dc.contributor.authorRobbins, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-13T18:37:51Z
dc.date.available2021-09-13T18:37:51Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-13
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is an historical cultural analysis of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF). Founded in 1997, this exhibition culture is the world’s longest-running documented trans film festival. Although content made by trans filmmakers or films with trans themes have been programmed at queer film festivals, trans-specific film festivals are an important and steadily growing phenomenon since the late 1990s. This dissertation seeks to address the limited scholarship that acknowledges the robust history of trans exhibition cultures, and by using ethnographic and historical methods, examines cultural and economic frameworks within which SFTFF emerged and persisted, illuminating tensions that cannot be disentangled. By tracing the festival’s interconnected queer, punk, and trans subcultural lineages, this dissertation outlines several of the festival’s counter-hegemonic practices. SFTFF’s enactment of punk as a sensibility translates to four key areas explored in this dissertation: identity, exhibition, spatiality, and economics.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26640
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectcultural studiesen_US
dc.subjectfilm festivalen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectqueeren_US
dc.subjectSan Franciscoen_US
dc.subjecttransgenderen_US
dc.title"The Hold Out": The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival and Exhibition as Protest
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Journalism and Communication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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