WST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: North American Free Trade Agreement, Maquiladora, Aerial Photography
13 Mar 2017
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A factory: first created in 1960s- in 1965, the mexican and united. Program, designed to encourage the building of factories near the us border as a way to create work for impoverished. Mexico to sell: shack cities created around the maquiladoras, foreign company doesn"t pay local taxes, so local governments don"t have very much money to provide services. This collaborative process breaks with the traditional documentary practice of dropping into a location, shooting, and leaving with the. Goods," which would only repeat the pattern of the maquiladora itself. [they don"t want to shoot and leave and treat the women. As cheap laborers for content like the cheap labor of. Factories] the process embraces subjectivity as a value and a goal, it merges art making with community development to ensure that the film"s voice will be truly that of its subjects.
