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Entertaining Social Justice: Through the Critical Lenses of Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Ava Duvernay, and Barbara Kopple

Entertaining Social Justice: Through the Critical Lenses of Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Ava Duvernay, and Barbara Kopple

Pfister, Joel

Hardcover

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 7, 2027

ISBN13: 9798216471998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 7 2027
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Thinking through movies is a way to think through America. And if nowadays it's commonplace, even clichéd, to call for an American reckoning centered on what media, corporations, and academia increasingly - and profitably - brand social justice, should we be asking ourselves: what is social justice, anyway?

Joel Pfister places the films of Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay, and Barbara Kopple in conversation to probe what they teach about the scope and stakes of what's called social justice in the US. Rather than simplistically pigeonholing these four as social justice filmmakers, as if social justice is self-evident and fixed, Pfister shows how their critical lenses help us see beyond the constraints of this slippery category and conspicuously merchandized sales pitch. Pfister's readings unpack how their conceptually daring movies - including landmark films such as Harlan County, USA (1976), Do the Right Thing (1989), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), and Selma (2014) - challenge us to think about what social justice could look like, and how in the future movies can engage us to entertain this question.

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