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Performing Arts History & Criticism

Brink of Reality

New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

by (author) Peter Steven

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
Jun 1993
Category
History & Criticism, Media Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921284680
    Publish Date
    Jun 1993
    List Price
    $14.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926662022
    Publish Date
    Jun 1993
    List Price
    $13.99 USD

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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.

About the author

Peter Steven teaches media studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, and he is the author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media. His writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, the New Internationalist, Jump Cut, the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and the Beaver. He holds a PhD in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University in Chicago. Peter lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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