{"product_id":"cultural-producers-in-perilous-states-george-e-marcus-9780226504407","title":"Cultural Producers in Perilous States: Editing Events, Documenting Change Volume 4","description":"Ten innovative interviews explore how producers of documentary media--filmmakers, journalists, and artists--located in societies considered marginal to the high-tech global centers respond to local and international audiences in creating their works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe meet a South African playwright who is shaping a distinctive form of activist journalism; a New Guinean producer who manages several media careers; Polish and German filmmakers developing critical documentaries on compromised new orders; a Columbian artist who provides powerful representations of endemic violence in her society; and writers from Martinique and Argentina with varied careers in the arts, media, and politics who provide tragicomic accounts of the marginal situations of their societies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCynical, hopeful, ambivalent all at once, these cultural producers in perilous states share a keen awareness of the marginality of their societies in the broader context of global change, and associate integrity in the reporting of local events with a critical politics of representation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George E. Marcus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226504409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226504407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.48w x 0.77d","brand":"George E. Marcus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437882913023,"sku":"9780226504407","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98d65171-f066-4abb-af88-05fdb8c186a5.jpg?v=1777167416","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cultural-producers-in-perilous-states-george-e-marcus-9780226504407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}