Brink of Reality

New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

by Peter Steven

tagged: history & criticism, media studies

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

Peter Steven (1950-2023) taught film studies at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Ontario. He was the editor of Freedom to Read magazine and an associate editor of Jump Cut magazine. He held a PhD in Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University, Chicago, and lived in Toronto.

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