{"id":1172,"date":"2019-04-08T19:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radicalfilmnetwork.de\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2019-04-08T19:46:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:46:37","slug":"radical-film-as-a-radical-pedagogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/radical-film-as-a-radical-pedagogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Film as a Radical Pedagogy"},"content":{"rendered":"What does radical film mean today? All cinematic forms, styles and intentions are capable of taking on a radical character. There are no concrete modes of distribution or exhibition that are exclusively radical \u2013 at least theoretically. What makes a film radical today, as Third Cinema proposed fifty years ago, is a particular way of approaching reality that, because of it, provokes a reaction on the part of the audiences. <!--more--> If one thinks of radical films as a \u2018pedagogy for the oppressed\u2019 in Paulo Freire&#8217;s famous articulation, they should be films that \u201cmust be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity\u201d. This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation.\n\nHumberto P\u00e9rez-Blanco is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is Co-editor of A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema. The Hour of the Furnaces Fifty Years Later and Founding member of the Bristol Radical Film Festival.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does radical film mean today? All cinematic forms, styles and intentions are capable of taking on a radical character. There are no concrete modes of distribution or exhibition that are exclusively radical \u2013 at least theoretically. What makes a film radical today, as Third Cinema proposed fifty years ago, is a particular way of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicalfilm.net\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}