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.
ISBN: | 9780823221011 |
Publication date: | 31st March 2002 |
Author: | DeeDee Halleck |
Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 486 pages |
Series: | Communications and Media Studies |
Genres: |
Media, entertainment, information and communication industries |