| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 264 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Illuminations
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Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243), filmography (pages 245-247) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 offscreen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media." --back cover. |
| Contents |
Adjusting the lens: an introduction / Freya Schiwy and Byrt Wammack Weber -- [Re]imagining diaspora: two decades of video with a Mayan accent / Byrt Wammack Weber -- Geographies, diasporas, and communities revisited / Elías Barón Levín Rojo -- Aaroz con leche: audiovisual, poetry and the politics of everyday life / Ana Rosa Duarte Durrte -- Shaping the taraspanglish diaspora / Argelia González Hurtado -- Patron saint fiesta videos: mediatization and transnationalization between the Sierra Mixe and California / Ingrio Kummels -- Romper el cerco: an ethnography of transnational collaborative film / Livia K. Stone -- Open invitation: some notes on video activism and the politics of affect / Freya Schiwy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English with some text translated from Spanish. |
| Subject |
Indigenous films -- Mexico -- History and criticism.
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Indigenous films. |
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Mexico. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Schiwy, Freya, editor.
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Wammack Weber, Byrt, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adjusting the lens. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017] 0822964465 9780822964469 |
| ISBN |
9780822982425 (electronic book) |
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0822982420 (electronic book) |
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0822964465 |
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9780822964469 |
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