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Movies to Save Our World : Imagining Poverty, Inequality and Environmental Destruction in the 21st Century

Author :  Kenneth Paul Tan

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Country
Singapore
Publisher
Penguin Books (Penguin Random House SEA), Singapore
ISBN 9789815058314
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info xiv, 222p.
Product Weight 300 gms.
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Through a close analysis of more than seventy popular documentaries and feature movies from around the world, produced in the twenty-first century, this book explores the theme of poverty, inequality, ecological degradation and revolutionary change, all associated with a contemporary crisis of neoliberal globalization in a world where it has become so pervasive. Profit rules, while poverty and inequality make the political ground fertile for populist manipulation. By returning power to the people, healthier forms of populism can lead the way to progressive revolutionary change that enriches democracy and corrects for social injustice. However, through ideological and political manipulation, populism can also take more debased authoritarian forms, promoting conformism, domination, exploitation, marginalization and degradation of humanity and its habitat. The book urges progressive moviemakers to take advantage of advancements in digital technologies and to collaborate, in post-pandemic times, with educators to develop public deliberation skills and inspire a new generation of informed and compassionate change-makers.

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