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DeeDee Halleck,
HAND-HELD VISIONS.
The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media.
Fordham Univerity Press, New York 2012,
copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, 23,5x15,5 cm., pp.486,
Introduzione di John Downing,
testo in inglese,
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For almost forty years, DeeDee Halleck has been involved in a
variety of projects that involve media making by “non-professionals.”
Her goal has been to develop a critical sense of the potential
and limitations of mediated communication through practical
exercises that generate a sense of both individual and non-hierarchical
group power over the various apparati of media and electronic technology.
Hand-Held Visions is a collection of essays, presentations, and lectures
that she has written throughout this process.
Halleck starts with a discussion of her own development as a teacher,
producer, and an active participant in the struggle for media democracy.
She gives the reader a historical first-person perspective on the
community-based media movement and a sense of the determination and
resolve that have enabled often fragile and much embattled organizations
and individuals to survive in a climate dominated by global media
corporations that are in direct opposition to their work.


Table of Contents
Foreword p. xi
Acknowledgments p. xiii
Introduction p. xvii
From the Atomic City to the Chelsea Hotel
Introduction p. 3
Plunk Your Magic Twanger: Community Control of Technology p. 6
Perpetual Shadows: Representing the Atomic Age p. 11
History Will Dissolve Us, Or, Time Base Correction in a Post-Cold War World p. 16
Remembering Shirley: Live from the Chelsea Hotel p. 25
Keeping Busy on Cape Breton Island: Journal of a Production Assistant to Robert Frank p. 30
A Salutary Dose of Poison: Teaching Media as a Homeopathic Cure
Introduction p. 44
Children Make Movies p. 47
Films in the Joint: What Worked with City Kids in a New York State Reformatory p. 51
Mini-moviemakers: Child-Made Films p. 55
There's Gold in Them Thar Hills: Prospecting for Child-Made Films p. 59
A Homeopath Abroad: An International Perspective on Youth and Media p. 64
Many Voices, One World: A New Information Order Begins at Home
Introduction p. 72
Travel Notes: The Marketing of Information p. 74
Otherwise (If You Live in a House of Babel, Learn How to Sling Stones) p. 82
The Willow Declaration: United in Support of Democratic Communication p. 92
The Experience of Citizens' Television in the United States: Public Access/Public Sphere p. 97
Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry: Creating Alternatives
Introduction p. 111
Paper Tiger Television: Smashing the Myths of the Information
Industry Every Week on Public Access Cable p. 114
Tiger Dreams: Midwest Museum Intervention p. 124
The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow p. 128
Access for Others: Alter (Native) Media Practice
(Written in Collaboration with Nathalie Magnan) p. 140
From Public Access to Geostationary Orbit: The Personal Is Political p. 160
The Camcorder Goes to War: Making Outrage Contagious--
A Chronology of the Gulf Crisis TV Project with Texts and Testimonies
(Written in Collaboration with Simone Farkhondeh, Cathy Scott, and Marty Lucas) p. 169
Public Space/Public Sphere: Infrastructures for Resistance
Introduction p. 191
Quilted and Patched in the New World Order: Women and Media in the United States p. 194
Rewiring: Women's Activism in the Age of Electronic Repression-
-Ruminations on Utopia/Dystopia p. 200
Green Grow the Rushes, O: State Funding for Media Arts p. 209
When You're Alone and Life Is Makin' You Sad, You Can Always Go-
-Downtown, Or, 45 Degrees Fahrenheit: A Personal Salute to DCTV from a Dependent User p. 211
A Public Response to the "Confidential Questionnaire" from a Foundation p. 217
Finding Strength in Community: Wake Up and Smell the Lilacs p. 225
Whittling Away at the Public Sphere: Marketing to School Children p. 231
Independent Producers and Public Television
Introduction p. 236
Mind Power: Collective Action for Media Reform p. 238
Statement before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications p. 244
Media Makers in Bonzoland: The New Opposition-
-Independent Media Producers, Media Reformers, and the Culture Industry Rank
and File in the Chilly Dawn of a Reagan Presidency p. 250
A Few Arguments for the Appropriation of Television p. 257
Telemanifesto for Collaborative Airwaves: Why Do We Need a New TV Network? p. 263
Beyond Simi Valley: Camcorders, Television, and Independent Media after L.A. p. 266
Guerrillas in Our Midst: Experimental Video and Public Television p. 273
Electronic Bandits: The Media Wars South of the Border
Introduction p. 286
Nicaraguan Video: Live from the Revolution p. 288
History in Havana: Notes from the Havana Film Festival p. 305
Women as Cultural Producers on Cuban Television:
The Case of Maritza Rodriguez and Los Abuelos Se Rebelan p. 316
Community Media in Brazil: The Well-Traveled Route of TV Maxambomba p. 329
Zapatistas On-line: The E-mail Read Round the World p. 333
Software for Hard Times: Liberatory Uses of New Technologies
Introduction p. 343
Teaching on the Net: The Dangerous Format of Com Gen 100 p. 344
Close Comfort: Soft Ware for Hard Times p. 352
Watch Out, Dick Tracy! Popular Video in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez p. 363
The Undisciplined and Punishment: On-line Resistance to the
Prison Industrial Complex in the United States p. 376
The International Implications of Media Democracy
Introduction p. 382
The Uses of Community Media: A Global Survey p. 384
Report from Delhi: The Front Lines of Cultural Survival p. 395
Declaration of New Delhi: International Community Television p. 400
Active Media Subjects/Observers in a WTO World: Icebergs in the Paths of the Colossus p. 403
Our Right to the Sky: International Regulation for Local Expression p. 410
Gathering Storm: The Open Cyber Forum of Indymedia p. 415
Timeline: Technology and Alternative Media p. 433
Annotated Bibliography p. 453
Filmography p. 469
Index p. 475