- School of Professional Communication
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
Canada
Ger Zielinski
McGill University, Art History & Communication Studies, Department Member
- Concordia University (Canada), Communication Studies, Department MemberConcordia University (Canada), Mel Hoppenheim school of cinema, Department MemberNew York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department Memberadd
- Cultural Studies, Experimental Cinema, Film Festival Studies, Queer Cinema, New Queer Cinema, German Cinema, and 36 moreCultural Studies (Communication), Experimental Film, Cinema and Architecture, Documentary Film, New Media, World Cinemas, Critical Media Studies, American independent cinema, Cinematic Cities, New Media Art & Emerging Practices, Bourdieu, Canadian Cinema, Film Festivals, Economics of Film Festivals, Humor, Queer Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Experimental Media Arts, Sexuality And Culture, Queer Film Festivals, Cinéma Français, New York City festivals, Queer Film Festival;, Fig Trees, Radical Queer, John Greyson, Philosophy, Art History, Critical Theory, Media Studies, Social Media, Cultural Theory, Cultural History, Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Sexualityedit
- Dr. Ger Zielinski lectures on cultural studies, film and new media. He wrote his dissertation in the Department of Ar... moreDr. Ger Zielinski lectures on cultural studies, film and new media. He wrote his dissertation in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, where he participated in the following two international research groups: Culture of Cities Project (SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative Research Initiative) and Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité (Université de Montréal). Recently, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (2008-2010) as well as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University and guest researcher at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He was recently a visiting scholar researching and writing as a guest at the Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College, at the University of Toronto.
Primary areas of research include LGBT and queer cinemas, cultural geography, culture of film exhibition and festivals, film institutions, post-1968 German cinema, and new media aesthetics and theory, and the relation between film/media and urban cultures. He co-founded the Film and Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group (2011-) in the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).
Zielinski has four main writing projects underway.
(1) The first project “Festivality and the Production of Community: On Social Movements and Their Media Practices” is a book that stems from his dissertation project and concerns the emergence of community film festivals alongside associated social movements (particularly civil rights, aboriginal rights, women's, and lesbian and gay) during the 1970s and 80s.
(2) He received a grant from the Symons Trust Fund for the Study of Canada for his project “From Scene to Seen: Cinematic Cities in Canada” is a book centred on the question of Canadian cinematic cities in its full ambivalence, viz. selected cities and their representation in film and other media, sexual geography, urban identity in tension with regional and national identities, funding policies, runaway productions.
(3) The third publication, “Screens and Scenes in the Shifting (West-) Berlin Undergrounds, 1970s and 80s,” is a book that addresses the traveling transnational notion of “underground” (cinema) and its associated scenes in West Berlin in the 1970s, in relation to the earlier New York City Underground scenes, the infamous Knokke festivals, Cologne's radical art scenes, among others.
(4) The fourth project "On the Digital Transformation of Film Exhibition and Festivals" concerns the radical changes in exhibition and screen cultures, alongside the emergence of the new media technologies.
He has taught extensively – history of communication, national cinema, and sexual diversity studies (founded Sprinkle: Undergraduate Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies) at McGill University, critical media studies at Concordia University (Montreal), as well as film and new media theory at Ryerson University in Toronto – and has recently given guest lectures at Columbia University, New York University and McGill University.
Zielinski was awarded the Beaverbrook Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and is recipient of the FQRSC (Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture) Doctoral Research Fellowship, SSHRC-McGill (Social Science and Humanities Research Council) Research Grant, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Fellowship, several Canada Council for the Arts Grants, TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA, Montreal), Power Corporation Fellowship, and a Kluge Collection research grant from Princeton University, among others.
For several years he served as a film programmer and member of the nomadic experimental film and video exhibition group Pleasure Dome ( http://pdome.org ). He also continues to work as an editor for Alphabet City ( http://alphabet-city.org/ ) (MIT Press), and as a critic he writes for a handful of art and film magazines.edit
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Research Interests: Queer Studies, Transgender Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Gay And Lesbian Studies, Film History, and 14 moreAmerican Photography, Documentary Photography, Photography & Portraiture, Queer Cinema, Camp, Kitsch, Popular Culture, LGBT Studies, Underground Film, Cultural and Gender Representations, Queer Art History, Representation of Sexuality in Art, History of Film Theory and Criticism, Museum of Sex, James Bidgood, and Mariette Pathy Allen
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The emerging area of research on film festivals continues to produce exciting work. While the arrival of Dina Iordanova’s timely reader may indicate (or help to incite) the maturation of the discourse (perhaps into a burgeoning subfield),... more
The emerging area of research on film festivals continues to produce exciting work. While the arrival of Dina Iordanova’s timely reader may indicate (or help to incite) the maturation of the discourse (perhaps into a burgeoning subfield), Jeffrey Ruoff’s edited volume on festival programming addresses a crucial facet of film festivals from multiple perspectives. Both books issue from the same publisher, St. Andrews Film Studies, which is quickly establishing itself as an important hub for work on film festivals. Each book can be considered separately and situated in relation to the growing publications in the area.
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Follow this link to online Dossier at journal's website:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2014/february/zielinksi.pdf
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2014/february/zielinksi.pdf
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Follow link to Dossier at journal's website:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2014/february/zielinksi.pdf
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2014/february/zielinksi.pdf
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Follow this link to the online article
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/gerZelinskiFestivals/index.html
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/gerZelinskiFestivals/index.html
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“Driving around Los Angeles: The Case of Gregg Araki's 'Irresponsible Movie' The Living End (1992),” in (Re)Discovering ´America´: Road Movies and Other Travel Narratives in North America, eds. Wilfried Raussert and Graciela Martínez-Zalce. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (2012).more
In this paper I reconsider Gregg Araki‘s The Living End (1992) in terms of genre pas- tiche and intertextual elements to show how the film itself works to trouble and redraw the boundaries of the road movie in the early 1990s, but also... more
In this paper I reconsider Gregg Araki‘s The Living End (1992) in terms of genre pas-
tiche and intertextual elements to show how the film itself works to trouble and redraw the boundaries of the road movie in the early 1990s, but also how this in-turn opens up Los Angeles and its seemingly infinite freeways and pronounced automobile-based culture to the genre. Part of my larger aim here is to rethink the road movie‘s relationship to the city, albeit an anomalous city, through the case study of Araki‘s film.
tiche and intertextual elements to show how the film itself works to trouble and redraw the boundaries of the road movie in the early 1990s, but also how this in-turn opens up Los Angeles and its seemingly infinite freeways and pronounced automobile-based culture to the genre. Part of my larger aim here is to rethink the road movie‘s relationship to the city, albeit an anomalous city, through the case study of Araki‘s film.
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""Interview with Stephen Kent Jusick from MIX Festival.
(Posted for interest and easier accessibility.)""
(Posted for interest and easier accessibility.)""
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Definitely an "early" work and planning to expand it. Comments of all sorts welcomed! "My study attempts to map out moments of the complexity of Montreal's so-called gay male strip clubs. Accordingly, I take a stroll through Montreal's... more
Definitely an "early" work and planning to expand it. Comments of all sorts welcomed!
"My study attempts to map out moments of the complexity of Montreal's so-called gay male strip clubs. Accordingly, I take a stroll through Montreal's "gay village" and investigate one of its clubs, i.e. its exterior, its interior design, its architecture the
overlapping flows within the club, the rules and laws that constrain some of those flows, and the dancers themselves,
altogether as a certain technè serving homoerotic desire. Moreover, in the light of this study, I propose a critique of the
concept of gay space and suggest its reworking."
"My study attempts to map out moments of the complexity of Montreal's so-called gay male strip clubs. Accordingly, I take a stroll through Montreal's "gay village" and investigate one of its clubs, i.e. its exterior, its interior design, its architecture the
overlapping flows within the club, the rules and laws that constrain some of those flows, and the dancers themselves,
altogether as a certain technè serving homoerotic desire. Moreover, in the light of this study, I propose a critique of the
concept of gay space and suggest its reworking."
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Open-Access text with link below. On the state of film festivals under the COVID-19 pandemic 2020. Open-Media-Studies-Blog, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft
Link at https://mediastudies.hypotheses.org/2484
Link at https://mediastudies.hypotheses.org/2484
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In ELEKTRA’s own words, the digital art festival has been ‘helping audiences explore the diversity of performance practices, particularly audiovisual and robotics, since 1999’ and takes place over six days and nights in selected venues... more
In ELEKTRA’s own words, the digital art festival has been ‘helping audiences explore the diversity of performance practices, particularly audiovisual and robotics, since 1999’ and takes place over six days and nights in selected venues across Montreal. While the festival has become an important place to experience digital art in Montreal, it also functions as a node within the international network of festivals that curate similar work. Its emphasis on digital art sets it apart from other festivals more focused on electronic music, e.g. MUTEK. Over the years ELEKTRA[1] has added an International Marketplace for Digital Art (MIAN), a two-day symposium of workshops for digital artists, producers, curators, and educators,[2] as well as an International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN), which expands the festival in its programming into a full biennial (e.g. number of participating artists, venues, and duration).
Research Interests: Digital Media, Contemporary Art, Experimental Media Arts, Performance Art, Media Arts, and 12 moreElectronic Media, Electronic Music, New Media Art & Emerging Practices, New Media Art, Montréal, Digital Media Art, Festivals, Curating interactive and new media art, Contemporary Performance Art in the Context of Digital Arts and New Media, Festival and Events Management: An International Arts and Culture Perspective, Elektra, and Curatorial Practices In Live Art and Media Arts
NPF 560: Advanced Topics in Film History and Theory (topic "Queer Cinema") Winter 2017
School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto Metropolitan University, TMU
School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto Metropolitan University, TMU
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CUST 4035Y: Advanced Topics in Mass Media & Popular Culture. Special topic: On the Politics and Culture of Exhibition & Festival Practices. This advanced seminar addresses two important areas within the interdisciplinary field of screen... more
CUST 4035Y: Advanced Topics in Mass Media & Popular Culture. Special topic: On the Politics and Culture of Exhibition & Festival Practices.
This advanced seminar addresses two important areas within the interdisciplinary field of screen culture: exhibition and festivals. While scholars over the last few decades have done significant research on the practices of exhibition, festival studies has also recently become a highly active field of inquiry. This seminar offers a systematic approach to exhibition and festival studies, particularly in the way they address the history of screen cultures, in terms of categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, and capital, among others.
Advanced seminar taught originally in the Cultural Studies Department, Trent University.
This advanced seminar addresses two important areas within the interdisciplinary field of screen culture: exhibition and festivals. While scholars over the last few decades have done significant research on the practices of exhibition, festival studies has also recently become a highly active field of inquiry. This seminar offers a systematic approach to exhibition and festival studies, particularly in the way they address the history of screen cultures, in terms of categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, and capital, among others.
Advanced seminar taught originally in the Cultural Studies Department, Trent University.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Community Engagement & Participation, and 18 moreCommunity Development, Events management, Film Industries, Economics of Film Festivals, Events, Film and Media Studies, Community Events and Festivals, Cinema Studies, Film Festivals, Film Exhibition, Film industry, Publics, History of Exhibitions, Screen Studies, Public Funding of the Arts, Media and Culture, Film Culture, and Cinema Exhibition and Distribution
ENGL 393 – Canadian Cinema 1: Canadian Cities and Cinema(s) This course explores the figure or ground that cities assume in the cinema(s) of Canada. Much current work in cinema studies has dealt with the representation and meanings of... more
ENGL 393 – Canadian Cinema 1: Canadian Cities and Cinema(s)
This course explores the figure or ground that cities assume in the cinema(s) of Canada. Much current work in cinema studies has dealt with the representation and meanings of cities and urban spaces in film, e.g. New York, Los Angeles and Paris. This course aims to extend this work to the case of Canadian cities, particularly Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg, which have each figured strongly throughout the history of the various cinemas of Canada.
Intermediate-level lecture course taught originally in the Department of English, McGill University.
This course explores the figure or ground that cities assume in the cinema(s) of Canada. Much current work in cinema studies has dealt with the representation and meanings of cities and urban spaces in film, e.g. New York, Los Angeles and Paris. This course aims to extend this work to the case of Canadian cities, particularly Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg, which have each figured strongly throughout the history of the various cinemas of Canada.
Intermediate-level lecture course taught originally in the Department of English, McGill University.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Film Studies, Cinematic Space, National Cinemas, and 21 moreUrban Culture, Montréal, Québec Studies, Canadian Cinema, Guy Maddin, City and film, Cinema Studies, Vancouver, Toronto, Film industry, Atom Egoyan, Cinéma québécois, Cinematic Cities, Cinema and Urban Spaces, Architecture and Cinematic Space, Winnipeg, Canadian/Quebecois Cinema, Cinema and National Identity, Representations of Space (Urban, Calgary, and Telefilm
COMS 200 (3 credits) – History of Communication I This course surveys the important social and cultural implications of major developments in communications from prehistory to the electronic era. Required lecture course given in the... more
COMS 200 (3 credits) – History of Communication I
This course surveys the important social and cultural implications of major developments in communications from prehistory to the electronic era.
Required lecture course given in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.
Multiple variations on this syllabus taught since then.
This course surveys the important social and cultural implications of major developments in communications from prehistory to the electronic era.
Required lecture course given in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.
Multiple variations on this syllabus taught since then.
Research Interests: Communication, Print Culture, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, History of Communication, and 10 moreCultural Studies (Communication), Telegraph (History of Technology), Early Modern print culture, Communication Studies, Alphabetic Writing, Publics, Papyrus, Print Culture, Book History and the History of Reading, History of Media and Communication, and Telephone History
COMS 490 – History and Theory of Media (Special Topic: Queer Media Theory). Advanced undergraduate seminar on intersections between queer and media studies, with particular emphasis on debates on the archive and affect theory. (Department... more
COMS 490 – History and Theory of Media (Special Topic: Queer Media Theory). Advanced undergraduate seminar on intersections between queer and media studies, with particular emphasis on debates on the archive and affect theory. (Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University)
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Queer Studies, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and 15 morePerformance Studies, Queer Theory, Sexuality, Performativity, LGBT Issues, Archives, Theories of Gender and Transgender, Counterpublics, Affect Theory, Affect (Cultural Theory), Archive, Sexual Diversity Studies, Media Archives, Publics, and Queer Counterpublics
Review essay on Adler, Dan, Jennifer Allen, Bill Burns, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, Jennifer Matotek and Stuart Reid, ed. Burns, Bill. 2015. Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us. Featuring Bill Burns. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing, and Toronto:... more
Review essay on Adler, Dan, Jennifer Allen, Bill Burns, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, Jennifer Matotek and Stuart Reid, ed. Burns, Bill. 2015. Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us. Featuring Bill Burns. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing, and Toronto: YYZBooks.