scholarly journals Toward a Trans Method, or Reciprocity as a Way of Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Chase Joynt ◽  
Jules Rosskam
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Lauren Berlant

It is reductive yet accurate to assert that Chase Joynt and Jules Rosskam first met because they are both trans people who make documentary films. While the alignment of these affinities does not necessarily prefigure a friendship—in fact, many would argue and experience the opposite—they have found kinship in their shared approach to positions as institutionally embedded academics who are also publicly exhibiting artists. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s “Friendship as a Way of Life” (1997) and the cross-disciplinary, conversational theory making of Lisa Duggan and José Muñoz, James Baldwin and Audre Lorde, and Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, they use dialogue to extend the intimate interdisciplinary legacies and potentials of thinkers collaboratively discussing social issues. Together, they ask what might be possible in envisioning, theorizing, and enacting a trans cinematic method—a praxis for artists and scholars alike to be in meaningful, mutually supportive, world-sustaining relationships.

Streotyping Femininity and Masculinity in Television Drama Shows

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-164
Author(s):  
Vincent Mukangayi Achando ◽  
Mukangai Achando
Keyword(s):  
Decision Maker ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Tv Show

The world deals with the issue of stereotypes in every area and every way of life, from gender, race, tribe, to religious affiliation. This is amplified when media comes into play. Television drama series has far reaching effects on the viewers' perceptions of social issues in every culture and society. This is because the television drama series construct a reality that the viewers believe to be true or ideal. The purpose of this study was assessing of Papa Shirandula TV drama in stereotyping femininity and masculinity on the viewers in Kakamega. This research was carried out among the residents of Kakamega municipality who are audiences of Papa Shirandula TV show. The results show that femininity was portrayed in terms of a woman being a housewife, homemaker, and mother—ignorant, inferior, emotional, and dependent on men—while masculinity was portrayed in terms of a man being a breadwinner, head of family, superior, non-emotional, independent, and decision maker.

scholarly journals Cesare Zavattini’s Poetics of Objectivity

Anafora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-520
Author(s):  
Etami Borjan
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Italian Cinema ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Subjective Judgment ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Real People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Masses

Cesare Zavattini was an acclaimed neorealist screenwriter and a theorist of neorealism. He has played a pivotal role in the critical rethinking of the new postwar Italian cinema although many of his concepts were considered avant-garde for that period. He stood for a direct, spontaneous, and immediate cinema with real people and real events. Despite his desire to eliminate all that was fictional from his films, Zavattini’s concept of new realist cinema cannot simply be described as a documentary approach. He was not so much interested in making documentary films but in making documentary-like fictions. He believed in the potential of cinema to reach a wide audience and in its capacity to be aesthetically subversive. The aspiration for an avant-garde cinema that would reach the masses was a naïve attempt that was too radical for the Italian cinema at the time. Most of his ideas were not accepted in Italy, but he was admired by young filmmakers all over the world. Some of his ideas were realized a few decades later in the works of the famous cinéma vérité and independent avant-garde filmmakers. Throughout his career, Zavattini argued that cinema should be socially committed art. He believed that neorealist films should direct the viewer’s gaze toward specific social issues and voice a subjective judgment on it. In neorealist films, fictional style and documentary rhetoric make the illusion that the experience of characters stands for the experience of the audience.

Documentary Films on U.S. Social Issues

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Katy Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Documentary Films

scholarly journals Penerapan Jurnalisme Investigasi Terhadap Film Dokumenter “Punk Berani Hijrah”

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Amalia Hening A ◽  
Kamalludin Kamalludin ◽  
Gunawan Ikhtiono
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Real Truth ◽  
Journalism Research

<p class="15bIsiAbstractBInggris"><em>This research discusses Investigative Journalism with the topic of the documentary film Punk Berani Hijrah by the Laskar Berani Hijrah community in Depok City. The background of this problem is the emergence of knowledge that documentary films can be called journalistic products with the aim of making documentary films, namely conveying information to the public. There is a real correlation between investigative journalism and the documentary film itself, namely the similarity in its purpose to convey, show, show real truth or information. So, the purpose of this study is to discuss whether the documentary film under study is included in investigative journalism research by raising the formulation of the problem, namely: How is the application of investigative journalism in the Documentary Film Punk Berani Hijrah? And what is the purpose of the documentary film. This study uses a qualitative approach and uses the type of content analysis research. This method is used to analyze the documentary film "Punk Berani Hijrah" whether the process of making and the content of its delivery represent investigative journalism coverage. The result of this research is that the essence, elements and characteristics of the documentary film "Punk Berani Hijrah" are imperfect so that it cannot be called investigative journalism coverage. However, it contains impeccable journalistic elements. The purpose of making the documentary film "Punk Berani Hijrah" is to change the stigma of society on negative views of punks and as a da'wah movement by showing and conveying the message that street punks need to be embraced together towards a better way of life.</em></p><p class="15bIsiAbstractBInggris"><em></em><strong>Abs</strong><strong>trak</strong></p><p>Penelitian ini membahas tentang Jurnalisme Investigasi dengan topik pada film dokumenter Punk Berani Hijrah garapan komunitas Laskar Berani Hijrah di Kota Depok. Latar belakang masalah ini adalah munculnya pengetahuan bahwa film dokumenter dapat disebut sebagai salah satu produk jurnalistik dengan tujuan pembuatan film dokumenter tersebut yaitu menyampaikan informasi kepada publik. Terdapat korelasi yang nyata antara jurnalisme investigasi dan film dokumenter itu sendiri, yaitu kesamaannya pada tujuannya yang ingin menyampaikan, menunjukkan, memperlihatkan kebenaran atau informasi yang nyata. Maka tujuan penelitian ini membahas apakah film dokumenter yang diteliti termasuk ke dalam penelitian jurnalisme investigasi dengan mengangkat rumusan masalah, yaitu: Bagaimana penerapan jurnalisme investigasi pada Film Dokumenter Punk Berani Hijrah? Serta apa tujuan dibuatnya film dokumenter tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pendekatan kualitatif dan menggunakan jenis penelitian analisis isi. Metode ini digunakan untuk menganalisis film dokumenter “Punk Berani Hijrah” apakah proses pembuatan dan isi penyampaiannya mewakili peliputan jurnalisme investigasi. Hasil dari penelitian ini ialah tidak sempurnanya esensi, elemen serta karakteristik dari film dokumenter “Punk Berani Hijrah” sehingga tidak dapat disebut sebagai liputan jurnalisme investigasi. Namun, mengandung unsur-unsur jurnalistik yang sempurna. Tujuan daripada dibuatnya film dokumenter ‘Punk Berani Hijrah” adalah untuk mengubah stigma masyarakat atas pandangan negatif terhadap anak-anak punk dan sebagai gerakan dakwah dengan cara memperlihatan dan menyampaikan pesan bahwa anak-anak punk jalanan perlu dirangkul bersama menuju jalan kehidupan yang lebih baik.</p>

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