Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822964465 ISBN 13: 9780822964469

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. The contributors relate the styles and forms of collaborative and community media production to socially critical, transformative, resistant, and constitutive processes off-screen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media. The chapters show how diasporic media makers map novel interpretations of image and sound into existing audiovisual discourses to communicate social and cultural changes within their communities that counter stereotypical representations in commercial television and cinema, and contribute to a newfound communal identity. The new media expose the conflict of social movements and/or indigenous and rural communities with the state, challenge Eurocentrism and globalization, and reveal the power of audiovisual production to affect political change.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Freya Schiwy is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology and co-editor of Digital Media, Cultural Production, and Speculative Capitalism.
 
Byrt Wammack Weber is an independent artist and media maker, founding director of the Mexican media arts organization Yoochel Kaaj, professor of visual arts at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán, and member of the Sistema Nacional para Creadores de Arte-FONCA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822964465
• ISBN 13: 9780822964469
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Herausgeber: Schiwy Freya, Weber Byat Wammack
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