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    Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas
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    Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas

    By Chris Robé

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    Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism. As a result, alternative media production becomes a central location where new collective forms of subjectivity can be created to challenge aspects of neoliberalism. Chris RobÉ's book fills in historical gaps by bringing to light unexplored video activist groups like the Cascadia Forest Defenders, eco-video activists from Eugene, Oregon; Mobile Voices, Latino day laborers harnessing cell phone technology to combat racism and police harassment in Los Angeles; and Outta Your Backpack Media, indigenous youth from the Southwest who use video to celebrate their culture and fight against marginalization. This groundbreaking study also deepens our understanding of more well-researched movements like AIDS video activism, Paper Tiger Television, and Indymedia by situating them within a longer history and wider context of radical video activism.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPM Press
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781629633312
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    Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas
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    Chris Robé

    Chris Robé is a Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He primarily writes about how various communities and social movements employ media making in their activism. He has written several books including Left of Hollywood: CInema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture (2010) and Breaking the Spell: A HIstory of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas (2017). He co-edited the collection Insurgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader (2020) with Dr. Stephen Charbonneau. He has been long involved with his faculty union in pursuit of creating an accessible and quality public higher education for all who desire it.

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