Description
Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the
historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late
1960s to the present. Video plays an increasingly important role among
activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism.
As a result, alternative media production becomes a central location where
new collective forms of subjectivity can be created to challenge aspects of
neoliberalism. Chris 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.
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