Adjusting the Lens (Paperback)
Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780822964469
Published: 10th July 2017
Script Academic
Series: Illuminations
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780822964469
Published: 10th July 2017
Script Academic
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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 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 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. 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.
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