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:	NOOK Book
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