The Colonized Eye
Rethinking the Grierson Legend
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1988
- Category
- Media Studies, Cultural Policy
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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.