| Hand-Held Visions: The Uses of Community Media Contributor(s): Halleck, Deedee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823221008 ISBN-13: 9780823221004 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2001 Annotation: For almost forty years, DeeDee Halleck has been involved in a variety of projects that involve media making by non-professionals. Her goal has been to develop a critical sense of the potential and limitations of mediated communication through practical exercises that generate a sense of both individual and non-hierarchical group power over the various apparati of media and electronic technology. Hand-Held Visions is a collection of essays, presentations, and lectures that she has written throughout this process. Halleck starts with a discussion of her own development as a teacher, producer, and an active participant in the struggle for media democracy. She gives the reader a historical first-person perspective on the community-based media movement and a sense of the determination and resolve that have enabled often fragile and much embattled organizations and individuals to survive in a climate dominated by global media corporations that are in direct opposition to their work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Performing Arts | Television - Direction & Production - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001040637 |
| Series: Communications and Media Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.32" W x 9.34" (1.80 lbs) 486 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For almost forty years, DeeDee Halleck has been involved in a variety of projects that involve media making by non-professionals.Her goal has been to develop a critical sense of the potential and limitations of mediated communication through practical exercises that generate a sense of both individual and non-hierarchical group power over the various apparati of media and electronic technology. Hand-Held Visions is a collection of essays, presentations, and lectures that she has written throughout this process. Halleck starts with a discussion of her own development as a teacher, producer, and an active participant in the struggle for media democracy. She gives the reader a historical first-person perspective on the community-based media movement and a sense of the determination and resolve that have enabled often fragile and much embattled organizations and individuals to survive in a climate dominated by global media corporations that are in direct opposition to their work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Halleck, Deedee: - DeeDee Halleck, Professor of Communications at the University of California at San Diego, is a filmmaker, video activist, media critic and co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and Deep Dish Television. |