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 Articles on MediaA Short Film Manifesto: A Sustainable Future for Activist Media
 by Larry Daressa
 This essay questions the pre-eminence of long-form, documentary "story-telling" and, more generally, 
the privileging of documentary content over the context of its use.
 TOWARDS ACCOUNTABILITY An 
  Essay in Collaborative Activist Media Production (78 KB .pdf)Larry Daressa delivered an abridged version of this paper at Visible Evidence 
  XVIII, New York University, August 13, 2011
 California 
  Newsreel Announces The Results From Two Social Justice Media Surveys A 
  Producers' Guide to Digital Rights ManagementPrepared by California Newsreel November, 2009, Revised August. 2010
 Radical 
  Media Practice in the Digital AgeRemarks by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel, before a graduate seminar 
  on “Politics and Post-Modern Form,” Prof. Jeffrey Skoller, University of California, 
  Berkeley, March 31, 2010
  
   The 
  Politics of Space, a Space for Politics:California Newsreel - Forty Years at the Site of the Reception (34 KB .pdf)
 Presented by Larry Daressa at Visible Evidence XVI, University of Southern California, 
  Los Angeles August 16, 2009
 Before 
  You Shoot: What You Should Know About Educational Distribution (1.04 MB 
  .pdf)by California Newsreel
 Educational 
  Film Distribution (1.66 MB .pdf)by California Newsreel
 Newsreel 
  at Forty And Zero: The Political Film and Its Audience in The Digital Ageby Larry 
  Daressa, California Newsreel
 Is 
  Social Change Media a Delusion? California Newsreel at 30 and 2000by Larry 
  Daressa, California Newsreel
 Review 
  of Oh Freedom After Whileby Ken Robinson, Associate Professor of Film, Vassar College.
 National 
  Educational Media Network: Content '96. May 16, 1996by Larry Daressa, California 
  Newsreel
 Reflections 
  on ITVSby 
  Larry Daressa, California Newsreel
 General 
  Principles in Media Literacyby Patricia Aufderheide
  Documenting 
  the Movement: California Newsreel Remains at the Center of Social Change 
  (2.17 MB .pdf)by Cathleen Rountree, Documentary Magazine
 
 A 
  Close Reading of Ads: A How-To Guideprepared with help from the New Mexico Media Literacy Project
 
 
 Notes for Viewing African 
  Cinema
 Film 
  Text and Context: Reweaving Africas Social Fabric Through Its Contemporary 
  Cinema by Mbye Cham, Howard University
 The 
  Hyena's Last Laugh: A conversation with Djibril Diop Mambetyby 
  N. Frank Ukadike, from TRANSITION 78
 Imagining 
  Alternatives: African Cinema in the New Centuryby African 
  filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno
 Viewing 
  African Cinema: Six Pointers African 
  Studies Resources  Ousmane 
  Sembene : The Life of a Revolutionary Artistby Samba Gadjigo, Mount Holyoke College
 Cuban Film Reveals Important Black Cuban Historyby Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel (on AfroCubaWeb site)
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