>I have not seen the documentary "Sonic Outlaws", but I recently read an
>interesting article about it in an old New York Times issue I was perusing.
> If anyone has seen the film, I am curious what your feelings about the film
>are, particularly the appropriation and recontextualization of media imagery
>(and whether or not this technique functions as a subversive tool against the
>hegemonic "one-way media barrage").
These are the very issues that the film works with. It deals with a number
of cases of recontextualisation, and does so by constantly
recontextualising the material on which it draws. An excellent film well
wort seeing for the questions you seem interested in.