Mercer, K.”De Margin and De Center” re diaspora perspective
“Aware that ‘there is a Third World in every First World and vice versa’ (Trinh T. Minh-ha), the diaspora perspective […]
02. Theory
Selections from writing by filmmaker/theorists on political media.
Mulvey, Laura. ” Visual Pleasure,” re bearer of meaning
Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male others, bound by a symbolic order on which […]
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.”
Psychoanalytic theory is thus appropriated here as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal socity has structured […]
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure,” conclusion
The first blow against the monolithic accumulation of traditional film conveftions (already undertaken by radical filmmakers) is to free the […]
Navas, Eduardo. “FEATURE: The Blogger as Producer” (2004)
“Following Benjamin’s criticism, one has to admit that this type of online publishing must also be included as part of […]
Parmar, Pratibha. “That Moment of Emergence”
What we have been seeing in recent years is the development of a new politics of difference which states that […]
Pitzer Media Praxis Blog
Here the students in Media Praxis, Fall 2008, blog about their ethical media praxis with teen green with whom they […]
Raymond Williams, Theoretical Crisis
“Now I think the true crisis in cultural theory, in our time, is between this view of the work of […]
Renoir, J. “My Life and My Films,” re progress
“but for me, as I have said again and again and shall go on saying, the real enemy is progress, […]
Renoir, Jean. “Is the Cinema Art?”
“Fascism, like Communism, believes in progress. The followers of both creeds look to a social order based on technology…Progress is […]