1. Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America

Este artículo explora el cine indígena en general en los “hojaldrados” contextos entre el “ser” y los “devenires” de la indigenidad (desde los movimientos culturales, socio-económicos, epistemológicos, políticos, históricos, estéticos y cinematográficos) y particularmente el acercamiento emancipatorio transformativo de la ONG Vídeo nas Aldeias (VNA ‘video en las aldeas’): productora, distribuidora, promotora y escuela de cine indígena en Brasil. VNA reconsidera y redirige el “sí mismo” indígena y el <em>otro</em> “común” en un contexto contemporáneo intercultural, trans-nacional, resaltando a la vez el contexto particular brasileño como “vital frente a la formación de una nueva (desmitificada) mirada hacia los pueblos indígenas y al deshacer de los prejuicios profundamente enraizados”. El cine y el video como formas y modos de conocer, medio (tecnología audiovisual), imagen, arte y operaciones, géneros, procesos sociales, metodologías de producción y sus apropiaciones político-culturales pueden ser una herramienta poderosa para despertar conciencia y desafiar el orden de lo sensible en el juego disensual de la semejanza con la otredad.

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When Ants Move Mountains: Uncovering a Media Theory of Human Agency

Elliott¹

2016

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Just as Smythe argued communication was the "blindspot of western Marxism," western communication and media theorizing itself suffers a blind spot, when it places media power in the hands of dictators and captains of industry as if no others might put pen to paper and change history. Meanwhile, theoretical explorations of how media praxis might be understood and employed for emancipation -not subjugation -emerged through the experiences of people in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This article examines and contrasts the theoretical silos, seeking moments of cross-over and synergy between static, top-down conceptualizations of Western mass media theory, and the more people-powered media praxis of colonized people seeking liberation. Building on the literature of differing experiences, the author draws a framework to encompass the full spectrum of media power. Here scholars, policy planners, and media practitioners alike may find common ground from which to recognize and support grassroots media producers as agents of meaningful social change.

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1. Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America

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