Ortner Screening Social Justice

Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2413-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Sherry B. Ortner explores how the nonprofit film production company Brave New Films deploys documentary film’s commitment to truth and realism to cultivate progressive political activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ortner, Sherry B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Brave New Films in the Mediascape 19
2. Critical Agency: The Power of Truth 31
3. Networked Agency: The Power of the Social 52
4. Affective Agency: The Power of the Film 73
5. The Impact Question, and Conclusions 97
Notes 113
Filmography 121
References 127
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream, Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject, and New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58, all also published by Duke University Press.