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Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

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.

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Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

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.

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Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

by Peter Steven
Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
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Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

by Peter Steven

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781926662022
Publisher: Between the Lines
Publication date: 06/14/1993
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 250
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Peter Steven is the author of Jump Cut and The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media. He lives in Toronto.


Peter Steven teaches film studies at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Ontario. He is the editor of Freedom to Read magazine and an associate editor of Jump Cut magazine. He holds a PhD in Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University, Chicago, and lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents


Preface & Acknowledgments



PART ONE
1. The Look, Sound, and Feel of the New Documentary
2. The Changing Face of Documentary 1960-1980
3. Producing in the Canadian Context
4. The Elements of Documentary Distribution
5. Audiences: The Ideal and the Real



PART TWO
6. Interviews With Film and Video Producers

Maurice Bulbulian
Sara Diamond
Judith Doyle
Richard Fung
John Greyson
Zach Kunuk
Brenda Longellow
Alanis Obomsawin
Yvan Patry and Danièle Lacourse
Claire Prieto and Roger McTair
Laura Sky
John Walker

7. Anatomy of the New Documentary: A Canadian Avant-Garde



Notes



The Producers’ Videos and Films



Finding the Films and Tapes: Producers and Distributors



Bibliography



Index



Index of Film and Video Titles

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