representation
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Center for Media Social Impact unveils findings on most comprehensive documentary representation study to date
From the Center for Media & Social Impact at American University, The Lens Reflected has released its findings as the most expansive research on #representation within the documentary industry. Ultimately, the results of the study say that, from 2014 to 2020 (2021/2022 saw the study being conducted and, thus, features no date from those years),…
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Colonial voyeurism revisited
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.