{"title":"Women in the International Film Industry: policy, practice power","authors":"S. Kerrigan","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1970467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1970467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115531275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MeToo: the impact of rape culture in the media","authors":"Pallavi Guha","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1966708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1966708","url":null,"abstract":"beyond the vivid descriptions provided throughout the book by the filmmakers about their hometowns, cities, and personal spaces. The lack of captioning takes away context or any idea of where each picture is taken or situated. The author visited many of the filmmakers’ sets; I would have loved to have an entry into those sets and their careers through an image reflecting the relationships they have with the people around them or with the camera. The bookmademewonderwhat independent filmmakingmeant, because even though the book talks about independent filmmaking, often, in the countries where the support and capital tomake a ‘mainstream industry’has not been the same, independent filmmaking then becomes the ‘mainstream’. It was interesting to note how different filmmakers balance funding, political thought in their art, and staying true to their vision. ShermanOng, for example, believes all art is political‘Migration and the history of migration in the region are important, and from there comes the material for my work.’ At the same time, filmmakers like Thaiddhi and Thu Thu Shein reflect on how people in marginalised groups are often forced to narrate only their stories and be ‘authentic’. The book manages to make the filmmaking scene in Southeast Asia appear small and interconnected by covering, non-hierarchically, the people who pioneer film festivals and the people who participate in those festivals in one story. After reading all 27 interviews and exploring each filmmaker’s story, I found myself returning to the introduction to situate each within their region and connect them back. The book serves as a great primer into independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia not only because of the impressive constellation of artists we are introduced to, but also because of how effectively these stories are told by Meissner and the storytellers who are featured.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121056963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Westside Stories: student-made documentaries about San Antonio’s Westside","authors":"Amanda Hill","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1934296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1934296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines special considerations developed during the implementation of a community-based documentary film project with undergraduate students enrolled in the Media Production II at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The films created for the course showcased the diversity of Texas businesses and business owners on San Antonio’s Westside, also deemed the Mexican-American cultural capital of the United States (Arreola). The article employs a qualitative case-study methodology to underscore theoretical components of instructional choices used within the project as a way to exemplify the dialogue that occurred between theory and practice in this community. Most notably, these methods illuminated the complications of engaging in community-based documentary work. This article contextualizes the project, location, author’s involvement, and the students’ reactions to give a multi-sided understanding of these nuances. By connecting the project’s genealogy to broader topics including journalism, geographies, the ‘other,’ the article explores possibilities found in conclusions drawn from student feedback around goals of finding story, and working with community partners.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116402717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Videographic criticism as research and exhibition artefact","authors":"D. Scott","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1927463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1927463","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article builds upon Susan Kerrigan’s model for a scale and magnitude approach to creativity (Kerrigan, Susan. 2019b. “Filmmaking as Creative Practice: Assessing Creative Magnitude and Scale.” Global Media Journal: Australian Edition 13 (1): 1–11. https://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/gmjau/?p=2941),by considering the addition of academic exhibition as a means to increase magnitude. Building from Kauffman and Beghetto’s model of creativity (Kaufman, James C., and Ronald A. Beghetto. 2009. “Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity.” Review of General Psychology 13 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1037/a0013688) this article introduces transitional limits to facilitate for creative practitioners working within the little-c and Pro-c criteria but are not yet eminent. In doing so, it problematises the idea of what constitutes professional and raises the question of how might a student or professional researcher escape the definition of little-c by increasing their magnitude? To consider this question, this article uses three primary case studies to explore how postgraduate researchers and professional academics are working at the Pro-c level, by situating them within the Four C model. Finally, considering how we can use videographic criticism as an ancillary product of research practice that can increase student and professional scholar’s creative magnitude, under the principle of forward incrementation (2009, 5).","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115327038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stylistic choices in true-crime documentaries: the duty of responsibility between filmmaker and audience","authors":"Phoebe Morton","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1925814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1925814","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Documentary films and the law make a well-suited pair, due to four key similarities. Firstly, the accessibility of criminal law and its reliance on familiar concepts of good and evil. Secondly, the narrative structure: the arc of accusation, evidence and judgement within a criminal trial mirrors the arc of set up, confrontation and resolution found in cinema. Thirdly, the use of evidence, particularly the use of ‘evidence verité’ and the assumption of truth associated with photographs. Finally, the law and documentaries have a similar understanding of the concept of truth, as a product of persuasion and argument. As true-crime documentaries garner more attention , the stylistic choices of filmmakers carry more weight on the opinions of their audiences and subsequently the criminal justice system itself. Discussion in this paper focuses on the stylistic choices in documentaries such as Making a Murderer (Demos, Moira, and Laura Ricciardi. 2015. Making a Murderer. Los Angeles, CA: Netflix), The Staircase (de Lestrade, 2014), Southwest of Salem: the story of the San Antonio four (Esquenazi, Deborah. 2016. Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four. New York: Investigation Discovery), and The Night in Question (Theroux, Louis. 2019. The Night in Question. BBC), and their use of emotion, dialogue and footage, and the necessary transparency concerning these choices as well as production choices, to encourage audiences to understand true-crime documentaries as a subjective performance.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128451731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sofia Theodosiadou, Paschalia-Lia Spyridou, Panagiotou Nikos, Dimitra L. Milioni, Papa Venetia
{"title":"Journalism education in the post-truth era: an exploration of the voices of journalism students in Greece and Cyprus","authors":"Sofia Theodosiadou, Paschalia-Lia Spyridou, Panagiotou Nikos, Dimitra L. Milioni, Papa Venetia","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1919833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1919833","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Journalism is in a state of flux and so is journalism education. The present study engages in a comparative qualitative analysis focusing on the viewpoints of journalism students in Greece and in Cyprus regarding journalism education in the post–truth era, media literacy, and journalism quality. Drawing upon evidence from four focus groups conducted in the journalism/communication departments of two public universities in Greece and Cyprus, the findings show highly similar attitudes between the two departments. In particular, it was found that journalism students acknowledge the need for journalists’ increased responsibility towards their publics and emphasize the necessity of (normative) skills and practices as important means in the direction of quality journalism; ICT-related journalistic skills, in-depth research, specialization, impartiality and verification, topic plurality and avoidance of agenda-setting stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130471667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professional digital journalists and entry in the Portuguese labour market","authors":"F. Pereira, Jessica de Freitas Cardoso","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1904616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1904616","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes the conditions in which Portuguese digital journalists enter the workplace by looking at certain choices they made while studying, during internships, and entering the ever-growing labour market. Thirteen biographical interviews were conducted with professionals who started working in journalism after 2005. The results show an opposition to the regressing conditions surrounding entry into journalism, as well as a set of strategies for insertion and permanence in the profession. The results also show that a journalist’s entry into journalism is a result of a combination of having a career project, of the individual choices that journalist makes, and how he or she has had to adapt their identity based on labour market limitations and the opportunities that have opened up ever since the onset of digital media.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126409273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrative in VR journalism: research into practice","authors":"Janet Harris, James Taylor","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1904615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1904615","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2015 The Tow Center for Journalism produced a live-motion virtual reality (VR) journalism story on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, ‘Secret Location’. They stated that this new form appeared to change how journalists must construct their stories. They also challenged the industry to explore the journalistic application of VR beyond ‘highly produced documentaries’ (Owen et al. 2015. “Virtual Reality Journalism.” Tow Centre. CJR. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/virtual_reality_journalism.php). We decided to make a short news VR film that explored the construction of this form of media and asked which narrative characteristic engaged the viewer to continue watching in a medium where the viewer was already immersed in the storyworld. Our findings suggest that even when the VR technology immerses the viewer into an illusion of presence, the traditional characteristics of narrative, character, plot, and subject remain of fundamental importance in the construction of a news story, and, it was the tension of what happens next, that is the plot, that was the strongest narrative driver in this short journalistic VR film. We also reflect on some issues raised in the production of the piece, such as the time taken, the limitations of creative editing and whether the expectations that VR raises might impact on the experience of viewing a VR news items.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"273 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133693904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The vibrant act of looking","authors":"C. Gough-Brady","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1888636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1888636","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I dissect how the filmmaker looks at the world around them, and the recorded images of that world, when they are filming and editing. I suggest that this is a different act of looking than how a non-filmmaker looks at their surroundings, primarily because the act of looking is a conduit intended for an audience, rather than an act merely for the self. I analyse this act of looking as a new materialist one in which the camera equipment and images have vibrancy. When filming, the cameraperson works with the camera to carve the world into frames. When editing, the editor falls into sync with the images, creating a dialogue with them where the images suggest edits via what they depict, but also via the materiality of the image itself.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128835905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed digital capital: digital literacies and everyday media practices","authors":"D. McGillivray, J. Mahon","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2021.1899628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1899628","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 In this paper, we focus on young people's use of digital platforms, within the context of a ‘live’ digital media project. The study draws on Bourdieu's notion of social practices and explores unevenness in the possession of digital capital by young people. We use a live digital media project and draw on a (digital) participatory action research approach to explore the extent of distributed digital capital in evidence with a group of young people from dis-privileged backgrounds and their creative use of digital platforms to enact strategies to alter their future prospects. We conclude that for those young people emerging from a challenging habitus, support mechanisms are a crucial element in building a bank of digital capital tradable in other areas of their lives. Communities of practice can support those without privilege to compete on a more level playing field with their privileged counterparts by opening up access to educational cultural capital.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121415083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}