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Pat Aufderheide

- Culture
- 17 Jun 08
P.O.V.: A Home For Homeless Films

P.O.V. is one of those occasional reminders that public broadcasting matters. Every year, like its complementary series Independent Lens,… more

vol. 32, iss. 07
- Features
- 15 Feb 08
Apocalyptic Activism at Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival is now the most important U.S. market for independent film. Because of the writers' strike,… more

vol. 32, iss. 03
- Culture
- 18 Jan 08
Save the Dramatic Chipmunk

When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, do they violate the law? Not necessarily, according to a study… more

vol. 32, iss. 02 technology
- Culture
- 12 Mar 07
Is Wikipedia the New Town Hall?

Public broadcasting everywhere is in crisis, and in part it's because technology seems to be turning pubcasters into dinosaurs.… more

vol. 31, iss. 03 media, television
- Features
- 17 Feb 06
Sundance Docs 2006

Have the marketplace successes of Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11) and Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low… more

vol. 30, iss. 03
- Features
- 21 Apr 05
Too Much Media

Our media environment is very noisy, abundant, even polluted. Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin calls it “media unlimited.” while… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 media, television
- Culture
- 28 Jan 05
Docs Rock Sundance

“We’re 21, which is usually thought of as the age of consent,” Robert Redford said at the opening of… more

vol. 29, iss. 07
- Culture
- 25 Jan 05
Copywrongs

Budding filmmaker Jonathan Caouette spent$218 to make a movie on his Macintosh about his dysfunc-tional family, Tarnation. It went… more

vol. 29, iss. 05
- Culture
- 14 Jun 04
Farmingville Lessons

When Carlos Sandoval—a Manhattan lawyer of Latino heritage—read while vacationing in Long Island about violence against Latinos in a… more

vol. 28, iss. 16 international
- Culture
- 21 Apr 04
Doc of Hazzard

There’s a lot of story in Love and Diane, a frank, unaffected look inside one battered African-American family. It’s… more

vol. 28, iss. 12
- Culture
- 18 Mar 04
The Untold Tales

When Naima married Hatem, she expected to leave the tragic past behind in East Jerusalem. She never thought her… more

vol. 28, iss. 10 international, television
- Culture
- 05 Feb 04
Sundance 2004

The Sundance Film Festival is part high school (did you get invited to the party?), part bazaar (check out… more

vol. 28, iss. 07
- Features
- 03 Nov 03
Media Forecast is Hazy

It’s bad weather in the communications industry, and not just for progressive media makers. These days, most media people,… more

vol. 27, iss. 26
- Culture
- 01 Jul 03
Terror and Radicalism

It’s hard for many veteran leftists to uncurl their lips on hearing the phrase “Weather Underground.” A home-grown terrorist… more

vol. 27, iss. 17
- Features
- 24 Mar 03
The Holy Grail

The crusade for media reform will face serious obstacles more

vol. 27, iss. 10
- Features
- 18 Jan 03
Music for the Masses

When Lester Chambers stepped onto the stage to galvanize the audience with “People Get Ready,” his band included one… more

vol. 27, iss. 06