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学者新作（2022年7月10日）

2022年7月10日

Movies to Save Our World

Imagining Poverty, Inequality and Environmental Destruction in the 21st Century

Author: Professor Kenneth Paul Tan of the Department of Journalism

作者：新聞系教授陳思賢教授

ISBN: 9789815058314

Through a close analysis of more than seventy popular documentaries and feature movies from around the world, produced in the twenty-first century, this book explores the themes of poverty, inequality, ecological degradation and revolutionary change, which are all associated with a contemporary crisis of neoliberal globalisation in a world where it has become so pervasive. Profit rules, while poverty and inequality make the political ground fertile for populist manipulation. By returning power to the people, healthier forms of populism can lead the way to progressive revolutionary change that enriches democracy and corrects for social injustice. However, through ideological and political manipulation, populism can also take more debased authoritarian forms, promoting conformism, domination, exploitation, marginalisation and degradation of humanity and its habitat.

The book urges progressive moviemakers to take advantage of advancements in digital technologies and to collaborate, in post-pandemic times, with educators to develop public deliberation skills and inspire a new generation of informed and compassionate change-makers.