Jess Shane: Towards a Third Podcasting

About this episode

Dario interviews Jess Shane about her article on activist podcasting and its connections to revolutionary filmmaking.

For this episode, Dario spoke to freelance podcast producer Jess Shane . Jess works largely in audio documentary although you can hear her work cutting across various fields, genres and themes. Jess came to our attention due an article she wrote for RadioDoc review entitled Towards a Third Podcasting: Activist Podcasting in the Age of Social Justice Podcasting . This piqued Dario’s interest, particularly because it clearly borrows from the seminal film studies article called Towards a Third Cinema , published in 1970 by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. The article has become a benchmark of film studies literature, the defining manifesto of Third Cinema which was a revolutionary movement emerging primarily from filmmakers in Latin America but then spreading to Africa and Asia. Anti-Hollywood (first cinema) and Anti European art-house (second cinema), Third cinema is a revolutionary kind of filmmaking practice. It seeks to provoke an out and out political action and sees filmmaking as a tool for the radicalization of its audiences. Jess outlines how the Solanas and Getino piece provided inspiration for her thinking about podcasting as a call for activism, despite the very…

People in this episode

Host: Dario

Guest: Jess Shane

Topics covered

• podcasting
• activism
• audio documentary
• social justice
• film studies

Keywords

• Third Podcasting
• activist podcasting
• social justice podcasting
• audio documentary
• political action

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Towards a Third Podcasting, Towards a Third Podcasting: Activist Podcasting in the Age of Social Justice Podcasting, Towards a Third Cinema, Accounts and Accountability, Talkback

Places: Latin America, Africa, Asia

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