The Prophetic Lens: A Missiological Function of Film for Black Social Movement from Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Camera Phone
Through technological advances and its democratization, the camera is found to have dual functionality. It is both a prophetic and a missiological tool used to awaken the collective conscience of a nation apathetic towards the Black experience and to offer a counter-narrative reorienting the US to b...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Brill
2021
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Mission studies
Год: 2021, Том: 38, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 350-371 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Beloved Community
B Martin Luther King, Jr B George Floyd B Gospel B Prophetic B Missions B camera B Racism |
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| Итог: | Through technological advances and its democratization, the camera is found to have dual functionality. It is both a prophetic and a missiological tool used to awaken the collective conscience of a nation apathetic towards the Black experience and to offer a counter-narrative reorienting the US to becoming a more racially just society. This paper considers definitions of gospel, missions, and the prophetic, outlining a framework for how the camera functions in all three. It briefly explores the use of the camera from Martin Luther King, Jr., during the Civil Rights Movement, to the contemporary citizen with a camera phone, all capturing anti-Black violence. As we will see, like the parables of Jesus were to his kingdom message, the content of the camera has proven vital to acquiring justice by exposing the realities of racial injustice, confronting the status quo, and energising viewers to take positive action. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341809 |