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DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by PM Press and Liberated Lens. The author will facilitate a 
 community discussion with a panel of video activists from various fields. 
 $5-10 donation, but no one turned away!\n\n"Breaking the Spell: A History 
 of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas" offers 
 the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of 
 anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Two 
 predominant trends emerge from this social movement-based video activism: 
 1) anarchist-inflected processes increasingly structure its production, 
 distribution, and exhibition practices; and 2) video does not simply 
 represent collective actions and events, but also serves as a form of 
 activist practice in and of itself from the moment of recording to its 
 later distribution and exhibition. Video plays an increasingly important 
 role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal 
 capitalism. As various radical theorists have pointed out, subjectivity 
 itself becomes a key terrain of struggle as capitalism increasingly 
 structures and mines it through social media sites, cell phone technology, 
 and new “flexible” work and living patterns. As a result, alternative 
 media production becomes a central location where new collective forms of 
 subjectivity can be created to challenge aspects of neoliberalism.\n\nChris 
 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.\n\nAbout the Author:\n\nChris 
 Robé is an associate professor in Film and Media Studies at Florida 
 Atlantic University. He has published essays on radical media in journals 
 like Jump Cut, Rethinking Marxism, and Journal of Film and Video and 
 written a monograph titled Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the 
 Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture. He is also a frequent contributor 
 to the online journal PopMatters.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/06/18803480.php
SUMMARY:PM Press book release with author Chris Robé – “Breaking the Spell”
LOCATION:Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/06/18803480.php
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