Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico (Pitt Illuminations)

ISBN 10: 0822964465 / ISBN 13: 9780822964469

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico (Pitt Illuminations)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822964465
• ISBN 13: 9780822964469
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Freya Schiwy (Editor)
Freya Schiwy is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Byrt Wammack Weber (Editor)
Byrt Wammack Weber is an independent artist and media maker, founding director of the Mexican media arts organization Yoochel Kaaj, professor of visual arts at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán, and member of the Sistema Nacional para Creadores de Arte-FONCA.