Hunter, Russ. 2022. “Capturing European Crime: European Crime Cinema at European Film Festivals.” Alphaville, no. 22: 31–41. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.22.02.
McVitie, Anne. 2018. “The Democratisation of Film Noir: A Case Study of the Noir City Film Festival, San Francisco, USA.” PhD Thesis, University of the West of Scotland.
Rak, Julie. 2025. “Festival Obscura: Gender in Festival-Driven Mountaineering Documentaries.” In Global Mountain Cinema, edited by Christian Quendler, Caroline Schaumann, and Kamaal Haque, 209–24. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.25700631.18.
Rath, Linda L. 2017. “Building a DIY Genre Film Festivals Web Resource to Empower Digital Scholarship and Cultural Heritage Participation.” Moving Image 17 (1): 29–51.
Stringer, Julian. 2008. “Genre Films and Festival Communities: Lessons from Nottingham, 1991-2000.” Film International 6 (4): 53–60.
9.2.1.1 Fantasy Film Festivals
Dellert, Frederike. 2011. “Kontroverse Pioniere: Zur Kuration des Fantasy Filmfest.” Schnitt (2 (#62)): 35–36.
Gann, Jon. 2012. “’Select. Build. Party.’: Patrick Van Hauwaert, Razor Reel Fantastic Film Festival.” In Behind the Screens: Programmers Reveal How Film Festivals Really Work, 39–48. Washington, DC: Reel Plan Press.
Mendik, Xavier. 2004. “The Fantastik Film Festival: An Overview and Interview with Magnus Paulsson.” In Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, edited by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik, 232–35. London: Wallflower.
van Extergem, Dirk. 2004. “The Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film.” In Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, edited by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik, 216–27. London: Wallflower.
Vivar Navas, Rosana. 2017. “Never Seen a Shot Like That Before! Playfulness and Participatory Audiences in San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.” In Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics, edited by Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, 117–32. New York: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional.
9.2.1.2 Horror Film Festivals
Hills, Matt. 2010. “Attending Horror Film Festivals and Conventions: Liveness, Subcultural Capital and ‘Flesh-and-Blood Genre Communities’.” In Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema, edited by Ian Conrich, 87–101. London, New York: I.B. Tauris.
Vivar, Rosana. 2019. “‘You’re Sick If That Turns You on!’: Female Participation and Gender Identities at San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.” In Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia, edited by Robert Shail, Steven Gerrard, and Samantha Holland, 151–65: Emerald Publishing Limited.
Vivar Navas, Rosana. 2016. “A Film Bacchanal: Playfulness and Audience Sovereignty in San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.” Participations 13 (1): 234–51. http://www.participations.org/Volume%2013/Issue%201/S1/6.pdf.
Vivar Navas, Rosana. 2017. “Never Seen a Shot Like That Before! Playfulness and Participatory Audiences in San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.” In Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics, edited by Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, 117–32. New York: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional.
(Last updated: 30. March 2025)