Activist Citizenship, Film and Peacebuilding: Acts and Transformative Practices

Autor(en)

Milja Radovic

Abstrakt

n this article I explore film as a socio-political and artistic-transformative cultural practice through which acts and activism are performed. I am interested in how film embeds acts of peacebuilding and how this scene of imagery/imaginary is transformed by those acts, with the filmmakers transformed into activist citizens whose activism questions ideologies that surround them. I argue that acts of citizenship and activism, as a creative practice, do not solely involve the analysis of how activism has been represented in films, but also the understanding of what is beyond these representations and narratives. I look at a) how film auteurs emerge as activists through the narratives and the created scenes 1 in film; b) how these acts consequently represent the “answerability to Others” 2 and c) the link between (cinematic) performativity and activism.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik

Journal

Journal for Religion, Film and Media

Band

2

Seiten

73-89

ISSN

2414-0201

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25364%2F05.2%3A2016.1.6

Publikationsdatum

2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

604011 Filmwissenschaft, 506013 Politische Theorie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/activist-citizenship-film-and-peacebuilding-acts-and-transformative-practices(25839344-aca2-49d7-ac74-5cb37a779adc).html