Performing Arts History & Criticism
Brink of Reality
New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Jun 1993
- Category
- History & Criticism, Media Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921284680
- Publish Date
- Jun 1993
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926662022
- Publish Date
- Jun 1993
- List Price
- $13.99
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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.
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.