Critical Writing Index

Looking for the Wild Things4: Gates and Gatekeepers on the Banks of the Free Flow

by DeeDee Halleck

1988 American Film Institute Video Festival, Fall 1988, pp. 36-39

An exhibition catalogue essay discussing the complicated nature of censorship, specifically how it relates to video. A case by case analysis of a number of complex censorship situations is conducted.

ITEM 1988.072 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Behind the Iran Contra Affair – Barbra Trent, Gary Meyer, David Kasper, Eve Goldberg

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis – Bill Moyers, Al Perlmutter, Al Levin

First Tuesday – Stephen Berger, Stuart Craig Smith

The Day the Cold War Came Home – Tony Kahn

San Diego Bus Porter Controversy As Seen From the Padre Trail Inn – Dan Martin, Paul Haddad, Ana Perez

The Helms Ammendment – The Gay Men's Health Collective

Rights and Reactions: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial – Phil Zwicker, Jane Lippman

Everyone's Channel – David Shulman

From Race to Reason to Lace and Legion – Paul Haddad

The Harold Washington Controversy – Mindy Farber, Kate Horsfield

Paper Tiger Televison: The Weekly Mail – Neil Lazarus, Kelly Anderson, Catharine Saalfield, Annie Goldson, Chris Bratton, Joel Katz

Tompkins Square Police Riot – Clayton Patterson

Katya Komisaruk Interview – Robin Doyno, Doug Dibble