Hand-Held Visions: The Uses of Community Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823221004)

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.

Author: Deedee Halleck
ISBN-10: 0823221008
ISBN-13: 9780823221004
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2001
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.32w x 1.31d