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Social Science Media Studies

The Colonized Eye

Rethinking the Grierson Legend

by (author) Joyce Nelson

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
Oct 1988
Category
Media Studies, Cultural Policy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919946910
    Publish Date
    Oct 1988
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

John Grierson was a British documentary pioneer and founder and the first director of the National Film Board of Canada. Joyce Nelson explores another side of “the master”: his commitment to the expansion of multinationals and his imperialist stance towards Canada’s filmmaking possibilities.

About the author

Born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1945, Joyce Nelson now lives in Victoria, B.C. She is a cultural critic as well as a poet and is the author of many books of non-fiction.

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