Brink of Reality
New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
Published on 14. June 1993
250 pages
978-1-926662-02-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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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.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- 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 Longfellow
- 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
