Film, Storytelling, and Social Transformation Cinematic Justice

1.       Introduction – Martin Hall

Section One: Justice Through Practice

2.       The Force Of Fury As An Emancipatory Intent - Javadi Hamideh

3.       Accept Yourself: Creation of a mode of practice for documentaries focusing on unheard voices – Rhys Davies

4.       How to Make a Film about Environmental Radicalism: Reichardt’s Night Moves, Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and Modernist Exhaustion – Daniel Dufournaud

5.       Form Meets Message: Documentary Style and Social Justice in Agnès Varda’s Feature Films – Martin Hall

6.       Cinematic Justice: The Stories We Could Tell – Deirdre O’Neill

Section Two:  Justice Through Place

7.       Refugees in Indian Cinema: Affective Empathy, Grievability, and the Cultural Disorientation of the Displaced Other - Sony Jalarajan Raj & Adith K Suresh

8.       Memory Activism Through Stateless Cinema: An Exploration of Kurdish Documentary Film – Cem Koç

9.       The Personal is Political: First-Person Storytelling and Third Cinema in Latin America – Carolina Machado Oliveira

10.   Representations of the Anthropocene in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red (1998) – João Pedro Soares

11.   Set In Motion: Film And the Promotion of Social Justice in Nigerian Civil Service – Emmanuel Best Thliza

Section Three: Justice Through Embodiment

12.   “History is A People’s Memory”: Malcolm X As told to Moviegoers and Interpreted by Social Justice Movements – Christian Chambless and Brittany Potter

13.   Cinema of the poor: The Popular Culture of the Egyptian Subaltern – Al-Amira Samah Saleh

14.   The Tragedy of Watching the Tragedy: Cinematic Injustice – Adalberto Fernandes

15.   Visualising Justice: Korean Films' Transformative Journey from Reel to Real – Kyoung-suk Sung

16.   Face/Off: Social Injustice in the Film Industry Through the Eyes of Young Professionals – Sarikakis, K., Chatziefraimidou, A., Ramadani, G., Haslauer, S., & Yeroshkina, M. 

Biography

Martin Hall is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at York St John University, UK. His research focuses primarily on European Art Cinema, American Independence, and Cinema and Social Justice.