Video activism/camcorder “vigilantes” in the pre-cellphone era, 1991 - 1993
Comment from Mark Dery
File contains promo postcard for Shooting Back, “an education and media center teaching photography, writing, and related arts to homeless at-risk youth in the Washington, DC area”; book, The Paper Tiger Television Guide to Media Activism; promo materials for Paper Tiger; article on the Gulf Crisis TV Project, which critiqued “the role of corporate media in the formation of public consent around the [Persian Gulf] war”; promo materials for Not Channel Zero (“an alternative news/cultural forum coming from an Afrocentric perspective”); two issues of The Independent magazine, “a publication of the Foundation for Independent Video and Film”; press materials from Deep Dish T.V. Network, “the first national grassroots satellite network,” “video by and for activists, distributed by satellite to public access cable channels and home dish owners nationwide.”
Dates
- Creation: 1991 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 3.36 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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