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OverviewThe Open Invitation explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and activist video. Schiwy analyzes activist videos from the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatista’s Other Campaign, as well as collaborative and community video from the Yucatán. Schiwy argues that transnational activist videos and community videos in indigenous languages reveal collaborations and that their political impact cannot be grasped through the concept of the public sphere. Instead, she places these videos in dialogue with recent efforts to understand the political with communality, a mode of governance articulated in indigenous struggles for autonomy, and with cinematic politics of affect. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Freya SchiwyPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 9780822965749ISBN 10: 0822965747 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 28 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA highly original analysis of community, indigenous, and activist media in contemporary Mexico. Schiwy sustains insightful comparisons between contemporary video production and militant Latin American cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrating with elegance the innovative ways in which contemporary productions construct what she calls a 'decolonial politics of affect' that is analyzed through the categories of visibility, communality, joy, and humor. --David M.J. Wood, Universidad Nacional Aut noma de M xico Schiwy accomplishes a genealogical shift that is overdue--repositioning a 'reading' of indigenous media less tethered to cultural anthropology where media makers operate as artists and where their works and process are in dialogue with broader discourses, including those of cinematic traditions in Latin America. --Erica Cusi Wortham, George Washington University "A highly original analysis of community, indigenous, and activist media in contemporary Mexico. Schiwy sustains insightful comparisons between contemporary video production and militant Latin American cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrating with elegance the innovative ways in which contemporary productions construct what she calls a 'decolonial politics of affect' that is analyzed through the categories of visibility, communality, joy, and humor.--David M.J. Wood, Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico Schiwy accomplishes a genealogical shift that is overdue--repositioning a 'reading' of indigenous media less tethered to cultural anthropology where media makers operate as artists and where their works and process are in dialogue with broader discourses, including those of cinematic traditions in Latin America.--Erica Cusi Wortham, George Washington University ""A highly original analysis of community, indigenous, and activist media in contemporary Mexico. Schiwy sustains insightful comparisons between contemporary video production and militant Latin American cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrating with elegance the innovative ways in which contemporary productions construct what she calls a 'decolonial politics of affect' that is analyzed through the categories of visibility, communality, joy, and humor."" --David M.J. Wood, Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico ""At the core of The Open Invitation, then, is a demand that we take seriously the aesthetic as a sphere of generative insurgent activity. . . . [The book] thus do[es] some significant work in making a case for the cinema's capacious function as an agent of insurrection."" --Journal of Cinema and Media Studies ""Schiwy accomplishes a genealogical shift that is overdue--repositioning a 'reading' of indigenous media less tethered to cultural anthropology where media makers operate as artists and where their works and process are in dialogue with broader discourses, including those of cinematic traditions in Latin America."" --Erica Cusi Wortham, George Washington University At the core of The Open Invitation, then, is a demand that we take seriously the aesthetic as a sphere of generative insurgent activity. . . . [The book] thus do[es] some significant work in making a case for the cinema's capacious function as an agent of insurrection.-- ""Journal of Cinema and Media Studies""" Schiwy accomplishes a genealogical shift that is overdue--repositioning a 'reading' of indigenous media less tethered to cultural anthropology where media makers operate as artists and where their works and process are in dialogue with broader discourses, including those of cinematic traditions in Latin America. --Erica Cusi Wortham, George Washington University A highly original analysis of community, indigenous, and activist media in contemporary Mexico. Schiwy sustains insightful comparisons between contemporary video production and militant Latin American cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrating with elegance the innovative ways in which contemporary productions construct what she calls a 'decolonial politics of affect' that is analyzed through the categories of visibility, communality, joy, and humor. --David M.J. Wood, Universidad Nacional Aut noma de M xico Author InformationFreya Schiwy is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |