Migrant Dreams: Documentary as Cultural Resistance for Social Change
| dc.contributor.advisor | Barndt, Deborah | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lee, Min Sook | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-15T18:59:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-09-15T18:59:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | I made a documentary fifteen years ago that I still haven't finished making. I didn't realize this until I starting writing this paper – but its become clearer to me that the process of creating doesn't obey spatial or temporal boundaries. Fifteen years ago I made a documentary about migrant Mexican men working in Canada called El Contrato. It was the first feature documentary I'd ever made. I had no formal training in filmmaking and was largely unfamiliar with documentary as a form. Somehow I made a watchable film and in the subsequent years El Contrato has been used as a tool for discussion and political engagement on migrant worker issues in Canada. With this project, Migrant Dreams, I am able to revisit the political and creative goals of my first film through a self-reflexive process that takes me back to the beginning but with a new set of questions that are explored in this paper. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | MESMP02346 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Major Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/30268 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Migrant women | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Social justice | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Activism | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Migrant workers | |
| dc.title | Migrant Dreams: Documentary as Cultural Resistance for Social Change | |
| dc.type | Major Paper |