[Commlist] Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisations and Activists

*Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisations and Activists*

Edited by Steve Presence, Mike Wayne, Jack Newsinger

Published July 16, 2020 by Routledge

254 Pages - 13 B/W Illustrations

Currently on offer £27.99 in paperback 
<https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Radical-Film-Culture-Networks-Organisations-and-Activists/Presence-Wayne-Newsinger/p/book/9781138543614>


    *Book Description*

Comprising essays from some of the leading scholars and practitioners in 
the field, this//is the first book to investigate twenty-first century 
radical film practices across production, distribution and exhibition at 
a global level.

This book explores global radical film culture in all its geographic, 
political and aesthetic diversity. It is inspired by the work of the 
Radical Film Network (RFN), an organisation established in 2013 to 
support the growth and sustainability of politically engaged film 
culture around the world. Since then, the RFN has grown rapidly, and now 
consists of almost 200 organisations across four continents, from 
artists’ studios and production collectives to archives, distributors 
and film festivals. With this foundation, the book engages with 
contemporary radical film cultures in Africa, Asia, China, Europe, the 
Middle East as well as North and South America, and connects key 
historical moments and traditions with the present day. Topics covered 
include artists’ film and video, curation, documentary, feminist and 
queer film cultures, film festivals and screening practices, 
network-building, policy interventions and video-activism.

For students, researchers and practitioners, this fascinating and 
wide-ranging book sheds new light on the political potential of the 
moving image and represents the activists and organisations pushing 
radical film forward in new and exciting directions.

For more information about the Radical Film Network, visit 
www.radicalfilmnetwork.com <http://www.radicalfilmnetwork.com/>.


      Biography

*Steve Presence* is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at UWE Bristol, UK. 
His research spans activist film culture, documentary and the UK film 
and television industries, and he is currently working on an AHRC-funded 
study of the UK’s feature documentary film industry. He convened the 
Radical Film Network in 2013.

*Mike Wayne* is Professor in Film and Media Studies at Brunel 
University, UK. His research covers radical film practices, media and 
cultural studies, Marxist theory and questions of class inequality and 
its cultural impacts.

*Jack Newsinger* is Assistant Professor in Cultural Industries and Media 
at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published widely on cultural 
and media policy, cultural labour and diversity, and has been involved 
in the Radical Film Network since 2015.


    *Reviews*

A newly, always, and again-relevant corner of contemporary and historic 
media culture—global radical film culture—is provocatively explored by 
its theorists and practitioners in /Contemporary Radical Film Culture/. 
Contributing to and driving these debates and practices while attending 
to the affordances of re-emergence through networking and networks, the 
authors, all members of the Radical Film Network, build new connections 
and learn from empowering histories because of the crises of our times, 
and in hopes of informing the future.

Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY

This first major collection of radical moving-image practices in the 
21st century marks an aggressive new phase in the resistance against 
capitalist commodity culture. Remarkable for its intelligence, 
originality, accessibility, and especially for its global 
comprehensiveness, it will be of great value for activists, scholars and 
teachers, and indeed everyone interested in the struggle for a more 
equal and less exploitative socialist world.　　

David E. James, Professor, Division of Cinema & Media Studies, 
University of Southern California

https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Radical-Film-Culture-Networks-Organisations-and-Activists/Presence-Wayne-Newsinger/p/book/9781138543614

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