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[ecrea] New book: Activist Film Festivals

Tue May 09 08:46:02 GMT 2017





Book: /Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject/ (2017), Bristol, UK: Intellect.

/Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject/breaks new ground by bringing scholars from a range of disciplines together with industry professionals to explore the concept of festivals as activist spaces where the sociopolitical identities of communities and individuals are confronted and shaped. Tracing the growth of activist and human rights-focused film festivals from the 1970s to the present, and using case studies from San Francisco, Brazil, Bristol, Melbourne and elsewhere, the book addresses such topics as whether politically orientated film festivals can achieve humanitarian aims or simply offer “cinema of suffering” and how effective festivals are at producing politically engaged spectators.

About the Editors:

Dr. Sonia M. Tascón is Lecturer of Social and Community Work at Western Sydney University, and has an academic background in Sociology, Film Studies, Media Studies, and Human Rights. She helped establish the first human rights film festival in the city of Perth, Western Australia, in 2007 and has remained active and engaged with film festival studies since then. Her first sole-authored book was published in this area in 2015, entitled /Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context. /

Dr. Tyson Wils is currently teaching media studies at Deakin University. He has published in the areas of media industries and technology, film theory, and landscape and cinema. He has previously worked as a features film programmer and education speaker for the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival and still currently guest lectures in the Masters course /Human Rights on Screen/ at University of Melbourne.


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