Between the lines [videorecording] / Muntadas. [1979]

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Between the lines [videorecording] / Muntadas. [1979]

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Between the lines examines the "invisible mechanisms" of mass media that control and contextualize information for the audience. Muntadas focuses on the mediating role of the television news reporter--the person who processes "facts" into "news." Following a reporter for WGBH-TV (Boston) as she covers a meeting between Mayor Kevin White and a community development group, Muntadas observes the selection process, scheduling choices, image fabrications, edits, and so forth that determine how information is transmitted on TV. In the piece he states, "When we say we are reading between the lines, we are completing information from the text with our own process of thinking, knowledge, information, subtlety. ... With television there is no time to stop and think while we absorb information from a moving image."

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (25 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original (2 copies)

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