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Christopher Robé is a professor in film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University. He has published ''Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture''., which resituates such well-known auteurs like Sergei Eisenstein and Jean Renoir in an American political context.,. It also argues that the 1930s proved a vital moment in time regarding the emergence of Left Film Theory,. His book, ''Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas''., addresses the rise of video activism and the new
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from the 1970s to the present. Robé can be seen discussing the book in the following interview. His newest book, " Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression" addresses how various communities like counter-summit protesters, cop watchers, Muslim American youth, and animal rights activists use video activism in their grassroots work to counter state repression and for self-determination. He has published an article on counter-summit protesting, video activism, and surveillance in the journal *Framework*:. He is also conducting archival-based research for a book on Raymond Williams that historically situates some of his key theoretical ideas in developing grassroots media with present-day concerns over the democratization of digital media. His collection co-edited with Stephen Charbonneau, " InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader" was published in fall 2020 by Indiana University Press. He frequently writes occasionally for '' Pop Matters'' and '' Cineaste'': The Alchemy of the Velvet Underground's Art

Freedom Is An Endless Meeting: The Utopian Vision of Women Talking

Disruptive Film and Political Turmoil
Disruptive Film and Political Turmoil
Adjusting the Focus on Somali-Americans: "First Person Plural" and "Muslim Youth Voices"
Adjusting the Focus on Somali-Americans: 'First Person Plural' and 'Muslim Youth Voices'
Bill Gunn's 'Personal Problems' and a History of the Video Revolution
Bill Gunn's 'Personal Problems' and a History of the Video Revolution
Documenting the Little Abuses: Copwatching, Community Organizing, and Video Activism
Documenting the Little Abuses: Copwatching, Community Organizing, and Video Activism
Field of Vision: An Expedition in Short-Form Documentary Filmmaking
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Expanding Our Field of Vision: An Interview with Laura Poitras
ExpandOurField.pdf
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'The Watermelon Woman', or, Whatever Happened to New Queer Cinema?
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'Disruptive Film' Creates a Constellation Where the Past and Present Meet
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Pathological Visions: Desire and Alienation in the Films of the Quay Brothers
Two Days, One Night ''Two Days, One Night'' () is a 2014 Belgian-French-Italian drama film written and directed by the Dardenne brothers, starring Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione. It competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Can ...

The Dardennes' Laboring Body in 'Two Days, One Night'
Boyhood
'Boyhood' and the Transcendence of the Everyday
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Jean-Luc Godard: A Montage of Attractions


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