Paris Is Burning by Lucas Hilderbrand

Author:Lucas Hilderbrand
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781551525204
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2013-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 26. Willi Ninja (right) in the video for “Deep in Vogue.” DVD still.

Film festivals

In 1990, with “Vogue” introducing the dance style to ever-wider mainstream audiences, Paris Is Burning screened at numerous film festivals, including many of the gay persuasion, and won various awards.34 Before it played festivals or won prizes, however, it was broadcast in an abbreviated form as an episode of the BBC2 documentary program Arena, scoring its highest ratings for the season.

The festivals’ publicity for the film offers useful evidence in reconstructing how it was introduced to audiences. Although I do not want to overstate the influence such program texts had on interpretations of the film—they were intended to promote the film and legitimize programming choices by the festivals and were not necessarily read by viewers—these blurbs nonetheless were often the first accounts of the film that audiences encountered. The New York Gay and Lesbian Festival (now known as the New Festival) boasted the film’s “World Theatrical Premiere” in a prime Saturday nine p.m. slot on June 9, 1990. The program text stated:

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