Description
Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts
Between Protest and Professionalization
Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics Series
Author: Mutibwa Daniel H.
Language: EnglishSubject for Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and...:
Keywords
West Germany; Protest Cultures; countercultural era; Socio-political Imperatives; contemporary journalistic; Artistic Imperatives; art programmes; Mainstream Public Service; documentary film-making; social movements; Cultural Production Processes; Cultural Industries Research; Professional Imperatives; Open Access Channels; Handspring Puppet Company; GRIPS Theater; Cultural Companies; Critical Sociological Approaches; Amber Films; Semi-structured Qualitative Interviews; Media Production Skills; Professional Journalistic Norms; Factors Impact Media; Contemporary Society; Industrial Films; Professional Journalistic Identities; Documentary Film Making; Wider Social Participation; Commercial Imperatives
Publication date: 09-2020
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 02-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation entails a comprehensive account of the history and trajectory of contemporary journalistic, (documentary) film, and arts and cultural actors rooted (partially or wholly) in radical, alternative, community, voluntary, participatory and independent movements primarily in Britain and Germany. It focuses particularly on the examination of production and organisational contexts of selected case studies, some of which date from the countercultural era.
The book takes a transnational and interdisciplinary approach encompassing a range of theoretical perspectives ? drawn from the political economy of communication tradition; alternative media scholarship; journalism studies; critical sociological and cultural studies of media industries; cultural industries research; and critical and social theory ? in conjunction with extensive ethnographic fieldwork. It does so to reveal the obscure nature of media and cultural production and organisation at seventeen media and cultural actors based in Britain and Germany, including South Africa and Nigeria. A particular focus is placed on how such actors balance competing imperatives of a civic/socio-political, professional, artistic and commercial nature as well as various systemic pressures, and on how they navigate the resultant ambivalences, paradoxes and tensions in their day-to-day work.
In essence, the book highlights key insights into a changing nature and quality of engagement with social and political realities in protest cultures.
1. Introduction
2. Key Theoretical Paradigms
3. Protest Cultures and Regulatory Contexts
4. Ethnographic Immersion in Media and Cultural Projects in Protest Cultures
5. Changing Imperatives in Journalism/News Production in Protest Cultures
6. Changing Imperatives in Documentary Film-Making in Protest Cultures
7. Changing Imperatives in Arts and Cultural Programming in Protest Cultures
8. Conclusion
Daniel H. Mutibwa is an Assistant Professor in Creative Industries and Digital Culture at the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.