Toward a More Perfect Rebellion - Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.a.

Toward a More Perfect Rebellion tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 1969 and 1973. While the program is best known for training the trailblazing group of Black directors known as the L.A. Rebellion, this book also includes the radical Asian American, Chicana/o, and Native American filmmakers who collaborated alongside their Black classmates to create one of the most expansive and groundbreaking bodies of work of any US university cohort. Through extensive interviews with the filmmakers and cross-racial analysis of their collective filmography, Josslyn Jeanine Luckett sheds light on a largely untold history of media activists working outside Hollywood yet firmly rooted in Los Angeles, aiming their cameras with urgency and tenderness to capture their communities' stories of power, struggle, and improvisational brilliance.

Product details

• Authors: Josslyn Jeanine Luckett
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9780520402133
• ISBN: 978-0-520-40213-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism