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Activist Citizenship, Film and Peacebuilding: Acts and Transformative Practices

Author(s): Radovic, Milja

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In this article I explore film as a socio-political and artistic-transformative cultural prac-tice through which acts and activism are performed. I am interested in how film em-beds 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 activ-ism, 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 representa-tions 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.

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Radovic, Milja: Activist Citizenship, Film and Peacebuilding: Acts and Transformative Practices. In: Journal for Religion, Film and Media, Jg. 2 (2016), Nr. 1, S. 73-89. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19432.
@ARTICLE{Radovic2016,
 author = {Radovic, Milja},
 title = {Activist Citizenship, Film and Peacebuilding: Acts and Transformative Practices},
 year = 2016,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19432}",
 volume = 2,
 address = {Marburg},
 journal = {Journal for Religion, Film and Media},
 number = 1,
 pages = {73--89},
}
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