Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Will be published approx. on 26. June 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-0-921284-54-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Sign Crimes/Road Kill" is a retrospective of Nelson's best work, ranging from ""Adventures in Wonderland"" (1980), a wry account of corporate engineering and the construction of Canada's own grotesque Disneyland, to ""Top Guns"" (1991), a typically acerbic look at the Tory administration and its connections to the Business Council on National Issues and Bush's much vaunted new world order.
The collection also represents the author's own journey-from a fascination with the construction of the North American media culture to a growing recognition of the severity of the current environmental crisis. Throughout it all, Nelson's controversial and entertaining prose trips lightly, and humorously, along a constant path of exploration.
The collection also represents the author's own journey-from a fascination with the construction of the North American media culture to a growing recognition of the severity of the current environmental crisis. Throughout it all, Nelson's controversial and entertaining prose trips lightly, and humorously, along a constant path of exploration.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-921284-54-3 (9780921284543)
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Person
Joyce Nelson is an ecofeminist and writer who has specialized since 1976 in the politics of the mass-media age. She is the author of "The Perfect Machine: TV in the Nuclear Age" (1987), "The Colonized Eye: Rethinking the Grierson Legend" (1988), and "Sultans of Sleaze: Public Relations and the Media" (1989).