Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico (Pitt Illuminations)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822964465 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Today, thanks in part to the arrival of newer video technologies and their increasing availability and affordability, these communities commonly produce moving images, made for a variety of audiences and purposes. Schiwy and Wammack Weber’s pioneering collection examines the diversity of independent media production both within indigenous Mexico and across international borders.” —Jesse Lerner, Pitzer College. “A generation ago, media representations of indigenous Mexican communities were made almost entirely by outsiders
The contributors relate the styles and forms of collaborative and community media production to socially critical, transformative, resistant, and constitutive processes off-screen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media. The new media expose the conflict of social movements and/or indigenous and rural communities with the state, challenge Eurocentrism and globalization, and reveal the power of audiovisual production to affect political change.. Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. The chapters show how diasporic media makers map novel interpretations of image and sound into existing audiovisual discourses to communicate social and cultural changes within their communities that counter stereotypical representations in commercial television and cinema, and contribute to a newfound communal identity