{"product_id":"insurgent-media-from-the-front-a-media-activism-reader-paperback-softback-9780253051394","title":"InsUrgent Media from the Front; A Media Activism Reader (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253051394","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInsUrgent Media from the Front\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Media Activism Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChris Robé (Edited by), Stephen Charbonneau (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253051394\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e348 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.535 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau's edited collection InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader proposes that 'visibility is clearly not enough' when it comes to media activism. Their attention to media studies' emphasis on technologies over practices helps focus media activism on an actual practice of activism rather than a detached understanding of activist media as cultural artifact. As they argue, media production, distribution, and exhibition \"often serve as a means to activism rather than an ends.\" In an era of hactivism and slacktivism, this volume makes a powerful reminder of the purpose of media activism and its urgency today, particularly as democracy is threatened in places like India and the United States.\"—Dale Hudson, author of \u003ci\u003eThinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The 'personal is political' has become so trite, it is co-opted by the right. \u003ci\u003eInsUrgent Media from the Front\u003c\/i\u003e traces the ethos of intersectional and indigenous politics historically and transnationally through the personal experiences of activists fighting to represent their struggles. It is urgent to understand the through lines of these alternative, activist and community media if we want to prevent social movements from becoming just another meme.\"—Vicki Mayer, author of \u003ci\u003eAlmost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1940s, it was 16 mm film. In the 1980s, it was handheld video cameras. Today, it is cell phones and social media. Activists have always found ways to use the media du jour for quick and widespread distribution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e InsUrgent Media from the Front \u003c\/i\u003etakes a look at activist media practices in the 21st century and sheds light on what it means to enact change using different media of the past and present. Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau's edited collection uses the term \"insUrgent media\" to highlight the ways grassroots media activists challenged and are challenging hegemonic norms like colonialism, patriarchy, imperialism, classism, and heteronormativity. Additionally, the term is used to convey the sense of urgency that defines media activism. Unlike slower traditional media, activist media has historically sacrificed aesthetics for immediacy. Consequently, this \"run and gun\" method of capturing content has shaped the way activist media looks throughout history.\u003cbr\u003e With chapters focused on indigenous resistance, community media, and the use of media as activism throughout US history, \u003ci\u003eInsUrgent Media from the Front\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the wide reach media activism has had over time. Visibility is not enough when it comes to media activism, and the contributors provide examples of how to refocus the field not only to be an activist but to study activism as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword. \"Then and Now: A Comparative POV on Activist Media\" by John D.H. Downing\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. \"Insurgent Projections\" by Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau\u003cbr\u003e I. US Radical Histories\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tanya Goldman \/ \u003ci\u003eMen and Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, Labor Advocacy, and Alternative Film Distribution, 1939-1942\u003cbr\u003e 2. Angela Aguayo \/ Subjugated Histories as Affective Resistance: U.S. Abortion Documentaries, Middle-Class Resistance, and Botched Political Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e 3. Alexandra Juhasz and Sam Feder \/ Setting the Terms of Our Own Visibility: A Conversation between Sam Feder and Alexandra Juhasz on Trans Activist Media in the United States\u003cbr\u003e 4. Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr \/ Seeing What the Patrimony Didn't Save, Alternative Stewardship of the Activist Media Archive: A Conversation between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr\u003cbr\u003e II. Indigenous Resistances and Indigenous Issues in Canada, US, and Australia\u003cbr\u003e 5. Lisa Gye, Daniel Marcus, Oliver Vodeb, Kristy-Lee Horswood and Sam Burch \/ Coming to the Fire: Collaboration across Cultures in Media Activism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ezra Winton \/ The Program(ming) is Political: Documentary, Festivals and the Politics of Programming\u003cbr\u003e 7. Dorothy Kidd \/ Mobilizing with Video in the Extractive Zone\u003cbr\u003e 8. Kristi Kouchakji and Jason W. Buel \/ Analog No More: Idle No More as Digital Nation\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ezra Winton \/ Letting it Seep In: Ojibwe Filmmaking Duo Adam and Zack Khalil \u003cbr\u003e Discuss Political Filmmaking as Covert Ops\u003cbr\u003e III. Community Media in the Americas and Asia\u003cbr\u003e 10. Ruth Goldman \/ Media Activism through Community: A Case Study of \u003ci\u003eSqueaky Wheel\/Buffalo Media Resources\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Chun Chun Ting \/ Community Organizing and Media Activism: The Case of v-artivist in Hong Kong*\u003cbr\u003e 12. Kara Andrade \/ WhatsApp Messaging and Murder in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ben Lenzner \/ Film, Video, and Digital Media Activism Collection: Regional Video Activism in India—Video Volunteers, Community \u0026amp; Empowerment\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525312606488,"sku":"9780253051394","price":28.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/insurgent-media-from-the-front-a-media-activism-reader-paperback-softback-9780253051394","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}