Screening Social Justice
Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 2023
160 pages
978-1-4780-2413-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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03/2023
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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.
Content
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
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
