Toward a More Perfect Rebellion : Multiracial Media Activism Made in L. A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luckett, Josslyn Jeanine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities in the motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History.

Minorities in the motion picture industry.

Independent filmmakers--California--Los Angeles--History.

Independent filmmakers.

Political activists--California--Los Angeles--History.

Political activists.

Genre:

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

Toward a More Perfect Rebellion tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 1969 and 1973. While the program is best known for training the trailblazing group of Black directors known as the L.A. Rebellion, this book also includes the radical Asian American, Chicana/o, and Native American filmmakers who collaborated alongside their Black classmates to create one of the most expansive and groundbreaking bodies of work of any US university cohort. Through extensive interviews with the filmmakers and cross-racial analysis of their collective filmography, Josslyn Jeanine Luckett sheds light on a largely untold history of media activists working outside Hollywood yet firmly rooted in Los Angeles, aiming their cameras with urgency and tenderness to capture their communities' stories of power, struggle, and improvisational brilliance.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: In Order to Form a New Los Angeles Cinema

1. The "Urban Crisis" in Westwood? Film and Social Change at UCLA after Watts

2. Elyseo Taylor and the Ethno Ethos: One Foot on Campus, One Foot in the Community

3. Relational Filmographies of Rebellion

4. Uses of Ethno: The Ethno Filmography as Pedagogical Power

Conclusion: A Filmography for the Fire Next Time

Notes

Selected Filmography

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520402157

0520402154

OCLC:

1503844378