Adjusting the lens : community and collaborative video in Mexico / edited by Freya Schiwy and Byrt Wammack Weber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiwy, Freya, editor.

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous films--Mexico--History and criticism.

Indigenous films.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

vii, 264 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

Summary:

Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed, analysis of contemporary independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and 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 offscreen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 [Re]Imagining Diaspora: Two Decades of Video with a Mayan Accent / Byrt Wammack Weber Weber, Byrt Wammack 13

Chapter 2 Geographies, Diasporas, and Communities Revisited / Elías Barón Levín Rojo Rojo, Elías Barón Levín, Byrt Wammack Weber Weber, Byrt Wammack, Freya Schiwy Schiwy, Freya 39

Chapter 3 Arroz Con Leche: Audiovisual Poetry and the Politics of Everyday Life / Ana Rosa Duarte Duarte Duarte, Ana Rosa Duarte, Byrt Wammack Weber Weber, Byrt Wammack 71

Chapter 4 Shaping the Transpanglish Diaspora / Angelia González Hurtado Hurtado, Angelia González 90

Chapter 5 Patron Saint Fiesta Videos: Mediatization and Transnationalization Between the Sieraa Mihe and California / Ingaio Hummels Hummels, Ingaio 119

Chapter 6 Romper El Ceaco: An Ethnography of Transnational Collaborative Film / Livia H. Stone Stone, Livia H. 151

Chapter 7 The Open Invitation: Some notes on Video Activism and the Politics of Affect / Freya Schiwy Schiwy, Freya 183.

ISBN:

9780822964469

0822964465

OCLC:

959274006

Publisher Number:

99973390991