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Date:          Mon, 19 May 1997 10:16:12 -0400
From:          Deirdre Boyle <deirdreboyle@worldnet.att.net>
Subject:       New book on guerrilla tv


"Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited" interweaves the
narratives of three very different video collectives from the
1970s--TVTV, Broadside TV, and University Community Video--to tell a
fascinating story of video guerrillas and their efforts to remake
television to include voices and visions absent from the broadcast media
mix.  Reviewers have said:

"A fascinating and sometimes amusing history of the early video pioneers
that offers astute analysis of why their utopian dreams for television
were doomed to fail...Boyle's talents as a media historian stem from her
ability to blend rich detail with a broader social, economic, and
politcy context..." --Laurie Ouillette, "The Independent"

"In the 1970s, during the astonishing rise of video as an independent
medium of expression, Deirdre Boyle was there as a gung-ho participant.
 In the 1990s she is still there, now as a clear-eyed, amazingly
meticulous chronicler of a turbulent period of media history." --Erik
Barnouw, author, "Media Marathon"

"Destined to change the subject of documentary history.  Boyle astutely
navigages the virtually unmined, volatile territory of guerrilla
television: new technologies, media collectives, organizational
in-fighting, funding struggles, network deals, the counterculture, the
new left, cable access, budgets, community media, actual productions,
editing debates, and the cast of major and minor players.  Her book
unfolds a riveting story of the paradox of hope and pessimism latent in
all new technologies."  --Patricia R. Zimmermann, author, "Reel
Families: A Social History of Amateur Film"

"Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited" by Deirdre Boyle
(Oxford University Press, 1997) 0-19-511054-4 @ $15.96 paperback
(288pp., 25 halftones)
Order from: OUP, Orders Dept., 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513
or call: 800-451-7556; in Canada, 800-387-8020.



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