Articles on Media
A Short Film Manifesto: A Sustainable Future for Activist Media
by Larry Daressa
This essay questions the pre-eminence of long-form, documentary "story-telling" and, more generally, the privileging of documentary content over the context of its use.
TOWARDS ACCOUNTABILITY An Essay in Collaborative Activist Media Production (78 KB .pdf)
Larry Daressa delivered an abridged version of this paper at Visible Evidence XVIII, New York University, August 13, 2011
California Newsreel Announces The Results From Two Social Justice Media Surveys
A Producers' Guide to Digital Rights Management
Prepared by California Newsreel November, 2009, Revised August. 2010
Radical Media Practice in the Digital Age
Remarks by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel, before a graduate seminar on “Politics and Post-Modern Form,” Prof. Jeffrey Skoller, University of California, Berkeley, March 31, 2010
The Politics of Space, a Space for Politics:
California Newsreel - Forty Years at the Site of the Reception (34 KB .pdf)
Presented by Larry Daressa at Visible Evidence XVI, University of Southern California, Los Angeles August 16, 2009
Before You Shoot: What You Should Know About Educational Distribution (1.04 MB .pdf)
by California Newsreel
Educational Film Distribution (1.66 MB .pdf)
by California Newsreel
Newsreel at Forty And Zero: The Political Film and Its Audience in The Digital Age
by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel
Is Social Change Media a Delusion? California Newsreel at 30 and 2000
by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel
Review of Oh Freedom After While
by Ken Robinson, Associate Professor of Film, Vassar College.
National Educational Media Network: Content '96. May 16, 1996
by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel
Reflections on ITVS
by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel
General Principles in Media Literacy
by Patricia Aufderheide
Documenting the Movement: California Newsreel Remains at the Center of Social Change (2.17 MB .pdf)
by Cathleen Rountree, Documentary Magazine
A Close Reading of Ads: A How-To Guide
prepared with help from the New Mexico Media Literacy Project
Notes for Viewing African Cinema
Film Text and Context: Reweaving Africa’s Social Fabric Through Its Contemporary Cinema
by Mbye Cham, Howard University
The Hyena's Last Laugh: A conversation with Djibril Diop Mambety
by N. Frank Ukadike, from TRANSITION 78
Imagining Alternatives: African Cinema in the New Century
by African filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno
Viewing African Cinema: Six Pointers
Ousmane Sembene : The Life of a Revolutionary Artist
by Samba Gadjigo, Mount Holyoke College
Cuban Film Reveals Important Black Cuban History
by Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel (on AfroCubaWeb site)