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Hand-held visions : the impossible possibilities of community media / DeeDee Halleck ; with a foreword by John Downing.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Communications and media studies ; no. 5Publication details: New York : Fordham University Press, c2002.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0823221016 (pbk.)
  • 9780823221011 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4502 HAL
Contents:
From the Atomic City to the Chelsea Hotel -- Plunk Your Magic Twanger: Community Control of Technology -- Perpetual Shadows: Representing the Atomic Age -- History Will Dissolve Us, Or, Time Base Correction in a Post-Cold War World -- Remembering Shirley: Live from the Chelsea Hotel -- Keeping Busy on Cape Breton Island: Journal of a Production Assistant to Robert Frank -- A Salutary Dose of Poison: Teaching Media as a Homeopathic Cure -- Children Make Movies -- Films in the Joint: What Worked with City Kids in a New York State Reformatory -- Mini-moviemakers: Child-Made Films -- There\'s Gold in Them Thar Hills: Prospecting for Child-Made Films -- A Homeopath Abroad: An International Perspective on Youth and Media -- Many Voices, One World: A New Information Order Begins at Home -- Travel Notes: The Marketing of Information -- Otherwise (If You Live in a House of Babel, Learn How to Sling Stones) -- The Willow Declaration: United in Support of Democratic Communication -- The Experience of Citizens\' Television in the United States: Public Access/Public Sphere -- Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry: Creating Alternatives -- Paper Tiger Television: Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry Every Week on Public Access Cable -- Tiger Dreams: Midwest Museum Intervention -- The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow -- Access for Others: Alter (Native) Media Practice (Written in Collaboration with Nathalie Magnan) -- From Public Access to Geostationary Orbit: The Personal Is Political.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.4502 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100452300

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-467) and index.

Filmography: (p. [469]-474).

From the Atomic City to the Chelsea Hotel -- Plunk Your Magic Twanger: Community Control of Technology -- Perpetual Shadows: Representing the Atomic Age -- History Will Dissolve Us, Or, Time Base Correction in a Post-Cold War World -- Remembering Shirley: Live from the Chelsea Hotel -- Keeping Busy on Cape Breton Island: Journal of a Production Assistant to Robert Frank -- A Salutary Dose of Poison: Teaching Media as a Homeopathic Cure -- Children Make Movies -- Films in the Joint: What Worked with City Kids in a New York State Reformatory -- Mini-moviemakers: Child-Made Films -- There\'s Gold in Them Thar Hills: Prospecting for Child-Made Films -- A Homeopath Abroad: An International Perspective on Youth and Media -- Many Voices, One World: A New Information Order Begins at Home -- Travel Notes: The Marketing of Information -- Otherwise (If You Live in a House of Babel, Learn How to Sling Stones) -- The Willow Declaration: United in Support of Democratic Communication -- The Experience of Citizens\' Television in the United States: Public Access/Public Sphere -- Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry: Creating Alternatives -- Paper Tiger Television: Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry Every Week on Public Access Cable -- Tiger Dreams: Midwest Museum Intervention -- The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow -- Access for Others: Alter (Native) Media Practice (Written in Collaboration with Nathalie Magnan) -- From Public Access to Geostationary Orbit: The Personal Is Political.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. xi)
  • Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
  • Introduction (p. xvii)
  • 1. From the Atomic City to the Chelsea Hotel
  • Introduction (p. 3)
  • Plunk Your Magic Twanger: Community Control of Technology (p. 6)
  • Perpetual Shadows: Representing the Atomic Age (p. 11)
  • History Will Dissolve Us, Or, Time Base Correction in a Post-Cold War World (p. 16)
  • Remembering Shirley: Live from the Chelsea Hotel (p. 25)
  • Keeping Busy on Cape Breton Island: Journal of a Production Assistant to Robert Frank (p. 30)
  • 2. A Salutary Dose of Poison: Teaching Media as a Homeopathic Cure
  • Introduction (p. 44)
  • Children Make Movies (p. 47)
  • Films in the Joint: What Worked with City Kids in a New York State Reformatory (p. 51)
  • Mini-moviemakers: Child-Made Films (p. 55)
  • There's Gold in Them Thar Hills: Prospecting for Child-Made Films (p. 59)
  • A Homeopath Abroad: An International Perspective on Youth and Media (p. 64)
  • 3. Many Voices, One World: A New Information Order Begins at Home
  • Introduction (p. 72)
  • Travel Notes: The Marketing of Information (p. 74)
  • Otherwise (If You Live in a House of Babel, Learn How to Sling Stones) (p. 82)
  • The Willow Declaration: United in Support of Democratic Communication (p. 92)
  • The Experience of Citizens' Television in the United States: Public Access/Public Sphere (p. 97)
  • 4. Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry: Creating Alternatives
  • Introduction (p. 111)
  • Paper Tiger Television: Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry Every Week on Public Access Cable (p. 114)
  • Tiger Dreams: Midwest Museum Intervention (p. 124)
  • The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow (p. 128)
  • Access for Others: Alter (Native) Media Practice (Written in Collaboration with Nathalie Magnan) (p. 140)
  • From Public Access to Geostationary Orbit: The Personal Is Political (p. 160)
  • The Camcorder Goes to War: Making Outrage Contagious--A Chronology of the Gulf Crisis TV Project with Texts and Testimonies (Written in Collaboration with Simone Farkhondeh, Cathy Scott, and Marty Lucas) (p. 169)
  • 5. Public Space/Public Sphere: Infrastructures for Resistance
  • Introduction (p. 191)
  • Quilted and Patched in the New World Order: Women and Media in the United States (p. 194)
  • Rewiring: Women's Activism in the Age of Electronic Repression--Ruminations on Utopia/Dystopia (p. 200)
  • Green Grow the Rushes, O: State Funding for Media Arts (p. 209)
  • When You're Alone and Life Is Makin' You Sad, You Can Always Go--Downtown, Or, 45 Degrees Fahrenheit: A Personal Salute to DCTV from a Dependent User (p. 211)
  • A Public Response to the "Confidential Questionnaire" from a Foundation (p. 217)
  • Finding Strength in Community: Wake Up and Smell the Lilacs (p. 225)
  • Whittling Away at the Public Sphere: Marketing to School Children (p. 231)
  • 6. Independent Producers and Public Television
  • Introduction (p. 236)
  • Mind Power: Collective Action for Media Reform (p. 238)
  • Statement before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications (p. 244)
  • Media Makers in Bonzoland: The New Opposition--Independent Media Producers, Media Reformers, and the Culture Industry Rank and File in the Chilly Dawn of a Reagan Presidency (p. 250)
  • A Few Arguments for the Appropriation of Television (p. 257)
  • Telemanifesto for Collaborative Airwaves: Why Do We Need a New TV Network? (p. 263)
  • Beyond Simi Valley: Camcorders, Television, and Independent Media after L.A. (p. 266)
  • Guerrillas in Our Midst: Experimental Video and Public Television (p. 273)
  • 7. Electronic Bandits: The Media Wars South of the Border
  • Introduction (p. 286)
  • Nicaraguan Video: Live from the Revolution (p. 288)
  • History in Havana: Notes from the Havana Film Festival (p. 305)
  • Women as Cultural Producers on Cuban Television: The Case of Maritza Rodriguez and Los Abuelos Se Rebelan (p. 316)
  • Community Media in Brazil: The Well-Traveled Route of TV Maxambomba (p. 329)
  • Zapatistas On-line: The E-mail Read Round the World (p. 333)
  • 8. Software for Hard Times: Liberatory Uses of New Technologies
  • Introduction (p. 343)
  • Teaching on the Net: The Dangerous Format of Com Gen 100 (p. 344)
  • Close Comfort: Soft Ware for Hard Times (p. 352)
  • Watch Out, Dick Tracy! Popular Video in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez (p. 363)
  • The Undisciplined and Punishment: On-line Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex in the United States (p. 376)
  • 9. The International Implications of Media Democracy
  • Introduction (p. 382)
  • The Uses of Community Media: A Global Survey (p. 384)
  • Report from Delhi: The Front Lines of Cultural Survival (p. 395)
  • Declaration of New Delhi: International Community Television (p. 400)
  • Active Media Subjects/Observers in a WTO World: Icebergs in the Paths of the Colossus (p. 403)
  • Our Right to the Sky: International Regulation for Local Expression (p. 410)
  • Gathering Storm: The Open Cyber Forum of Indymedia (p. 415)
  • Appendix Timeline: Technology and Alternative Media (p. 433)
  • Annotated Bibliography (p. 453)
  • Filmography (p. 469)
  • Index (p. 475)

Author notes provided by Syndetics


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.
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