Insurgent Media from the Front (eBook, ePUB)

A Media Activism Reader
Redaktion: Robé, Chris; Charbonneau, Stephen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This anthology examines how activists have used media technology to effect social and political change from the 1940s to today. In the 1940s, it was 16 mm film. In the 1980s, it was handheld video cameras. Today, it is cell phones and social media. Activists have always found ways to use the media du jour for quick and widespread distribution. InsUrgent Media from the Front looks at activist media practices in the twenty-first century and sheds light on what it means to enact change using different media of the past and present. The term "insUrgent media" highlights the ways grassroots media activists challenge hegemonic norms like colonialism, patriarchy, imperialism, classism, and heteronormativity-while also conveying the urgency of this work. With chapters focused on indigenous resistance, community media, and the use of media as activism throughout US history, this anthology emphasizes the wide reach media activism has had over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253051424
• Artikelnr.: 60196934

Autorenporträt

Chris Robé is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He has written two books: Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture and Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas. Stephen Charbonneau is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is author of Projecting Race: Postwar America, Civil Rights, and Documentary Film.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. "Then and Now: A Comparative POV on Activist Media" by John D.H.
Downing
Introduction. "Insurgent Projections" by Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau
I. US Radical Histories
1. Tanya Goldman / Men and Dust, Labor Advocacy, and Alternative Film
Distribution, 1939-1942
2. Angela Aguayo / Subjugated Histories as Affective Resistance: U.S.
Abortion Documentaries, Middle-Class Resistance, and Botched Political
Subjectivity
3. Alexandra Juhasz and Sam Feder / Setting the Terms of Our Own
Visibility: A Conversation between Sam Feder and Alexandra Juhasz on Trans
Activist Media in the United States
4. Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr / Seeing What the Patrimony Didn't
Save, Alternative Stewardship of the Activist Media Archive: A Conversation
between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr
II. Indigenous Resistances and Indigenous Issues in Canada, US, and
Australia
5. Lisa Gye, Daniel Marcus, Oliver Vodeb, Kristy-Lee Horswood and Sam Burch
/ Coming to the Fire: Collaboration across Cultures in Media Activism
6. Ezra Winton / The Program(ming) is Political: Documentary, Festivals and
the Politics of Programming
7. Dorothy Kidd / Mobilizing with Video in the Extractive Zone
8. Kristi Kouchakji and Jason W. Buel / Analog No More: Idle No More as
Digital Nation
9. Ezra Winton / Letting it Seep In: Ojibwe Filmmaking Duo Adam and Zack
Khalil
Discuss Political Filmmaking as Covert Ops
III. Community Media in the Americas and Asia
10. Ruth Goldman / Media Activism through Community: A Case Study of
Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources
11. Chun Chun Ting / Community Organizing and Media Activism: The Case of
v-artivist in Hong Kong*
12. Kara Andrade / WhatsApp Messaging and Murder in Mexico
13. Ben Lenzner / Film, Video, and Digital Media Activism Collection:
Regional Video Activism in India-Video Volunteers, Community & Empowerment
List of Contributors
Index