[Commlist] New Book: Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation

I would like to point list members to a new book titled */Cultural 
Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest 
and Professionalisation/* that provides a comprehensive account of the 
history and trajectory of contemporary journalistic, (documentary) film, 
and arts and cultural actors rooted (partially or wholly) in radical, 
alternative, community, voluntary, participatory and independent 
movements primarily in Britain and Germany. It focuses particularly on 
the examination of production and organisational contexts of selected 
case studies, some of which date from the countercultural era.

The book takes a transnational and interdisciplinary approach 
encompassing a range of theoretical perspectives — drawn from the 
political economy of communication tradition; alternative media 
scholarship; journalism studies; critical sociological and cultural 
studies of media industries; cultural industries research; and critical 
and social theory — in conjunction with extensive ethnographic 
fieldwork. It does so to reveal the obscure nature of media and cultural 
production and organisation at seventeen media and cultural actors based 
in Britain and Germany, including South Africa and Nigeria. A particular 
focus is placed on how such actors balance competing imperatives of a 
civic/socio-political, professional, artistic and commercial nature as 
well as various systemic pressures, and on how they navigate the 
resultant ambivalences, paradoxes and tensions in their day-to-day work.

In essence, the book highlights key insights into a changing nature and 
quality of engagement with social and political realities in protest 
cultures.

More details can be accessed via:

https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Protest-in-Journalism-Documentary-Films-and-the-Arts-Between/Mutibwa/p/book/9781138552135 




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