Documentary resistance : social change and participatory media / Angela J. Aguayo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aguayo, Angela J., 1974- author.

Contributor:

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--United States.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--Social aspects--United States.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Documentary films--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 280 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections between unlikely interlockers. In this process communities invest in the exchange of documentary moving image discourse around politics and social change. This book advances a new argument suggesting the social change capacity of documentary is found in the genre's ability to establish forms of collective identification and political agency capable of producing and sustaining activist media cultures. Organized activist media publics often take on the necessary heavy lifting of political struggle, work that cannot be accomplished with the media screen alone. This book advances the creation of a conceptual, theoretical, and historical space in which documentary and social change can be examined. This interdisciplinary project draws upon research in cinema, media, and communication studies as well as cultural theory to explore how political ideas move into participatory action. This book will take a distinctive approach, attempting to understand how struggles for social justice are located, reflected, and represented on the documentary screen, but also in pre- and post-production processes. To address this living history, this project includes over sixty completed unpublished field interviews with documentary filmmakers, critics, funders, activists, and distributors. This will create a dynamic and practice-inclusive space in which documentary can be investigated"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: documentary resistance

A critical history of documentary and participatory media culture(s)

Documentary goes popular : the rise of digital media cultures

Laboring under documentary : collective identification and the collapse of the American working class

Subjugated histories as affective resistance : abortion documentaries as botched political subjectivity

Street tapes as the people's history of unjustified police force

Conclusion : the documentary commons and conditions of resistance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Aguayo, Angela J., 1974- author. Documentary resistance

ISBN:

9780190676216

0190676213

9780190676223

0190676221

OCLC:

1085592125