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Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
Peter Steven
$14.95 CDN
$8.95 US
paper 0-921284-68-3
1993
In Brink of Reality, Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue documentary, from the 1940s to the present. No other book has explored contemporary Canadian documentary so thoroughly, or provided as broad a view of the state of the art in the 1990s.
The Colonized Eye: Rethinking the Grierson Legend
Joyce Nelson
$14.95 CDN
paper 0-919946-91-7
1988
John Grierson was a British documentary pioneer and founder and first director of the National Film Board of Canada. Joyce Nelson explores another side of "the master:" his commitment to the expansion of multinationals and his imperialist stance towards Canada's filmmaking possibilities.
Images in Action: A Guide to Using Women's Film and Video
Ferne Cristall & Barbara Emanuel
$10.95 CDN
paper 0-919946-69-0
1986
Images in Action offers practical information on designing film programs, planning small and large group showings, and animating discussions with audiences. It includes discussions of feminist filmmaking and the women's movement, Hollywood's images of women, and documentary filmmaking in North America.
Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics and Counter Cinema
Ed. Peter Steven
$15.95 CDN
$8.95 US
paper 0-919946-55-0
1985
"An extremely valuable collection...All the articles are good. Some are spectacular. Virtually all are accessible to people new to film criticism."
-- Books in Canada
McLuhan's Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media
Stephen Dale
$22.95 CDN
$14.95 US
paper 1-896357-04-0
1996
McLuhan's Children is an inside look at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media imagery. From the flamboyant, guerilla-theatre approach to the emergence of environmentalism as a dominant international issue.
"An important book for all people trying to publicise their message and change the world, not just green it."
-- New Internationalist magazine
Memoirs of a Media Maverick
Boyce Richardson
$24.95 CDN
$19.95 US
paper 1-896357-80-6
2003
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Peter Steven
$14.95 CDN (this edition available in Canada only)
paper 1-896357-87-3
2004
The Perfect Machine: TV in the Nuclear Age
Joyce Nelson
$15.95 CDN
paper 0-919946-85-2
1987
In The Perfect Machine Nelson explores the hidden and bizarre roots of a medium that has assumed extraordinary, institutionalized power over our daily lives.
"Crucially important historical material that everyone interested in television should know... polemical, eloquent, and courageous."
-- Cinema Canada
Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
Eds. Martha Gever, John Greyson, & Pratibha Parmar
$19.95 CDN
paper 0-921284-72-1
1993
"Powered by the subversive energies of the new 'queer' politics, this wide-ranging and challenging collection brings together the writers and essays that have staked out a new and distinctive lesbian and gay perspective on film, video and representation. A rich feast of a book and essential reading for cultural studies."
--Stuart Hall
Raymond Williams on Television: Selected Writings
Ed. Alan O'Connor
$15.95 CDN (this edition available in Canada only)
paper 0-919946-99-2
1989
Raymond Williams was named "the foremost political thinker of his generation" (The Guardian). O'Connor's sensitive approach provides a rare glimpse not only into the events of Williams' daily life, but also into the continuing development of a personal sociology of culture.
Sign Crimes/Road Kill: From Mediascape to Landscape
Joyce Nelson
$16.95 CDN
paper 0-921284-54-3
1992
Joyce Nelson is an eco-feminist who has established herself as "the most astute cultural critic in Canada" (Books in Canada). This is a retrospective of Nelson's best work.
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