HAND HELD VISIONS:
The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media
WITH Author/Media Activist DeeDee Halleck
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 organisations and individuals to survive in a climate dominated by global media corporations that are in direct opposition to their work. DeeDee Halleck, Professor Emerita of Communication at the University of California San Diego, is a filmmaker, video activist, media critic and co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and Deep Dish Television.
Praise for Hand-Held Visions: ".... inspires hope and spurs action and participation... This will be an indispensable book for those committed to doing something about a declining public sphere and helping democratise the media."
Edward S. Herman, co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. " This long-overdue collection of her writing offers a fabulously rich selection that will get us all laughing out loud while we are plotting how to get media-active."
Martha Rosler, artist and teacher Hand-Held Visions promises to be one of the most important books chronicling the movement for access and media democracy.
Patricia Zimmerann, Professor of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College. This collection is an indomitable call to arms, to throw our energies into radical alternative media. John Downing, John T. Jones, Jr. Centennial Professor In Communications, University of Texas
Hand Held Visions Fordham University Press 432pp, Illustrated $25 Paperback to purchase: sales@a/kpress.org or mnoonan@fordham.edu directly at Fordham.