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Counterpoise - The Guide to Alternative Media and Small Presses

A note from Jennifer:
I've volunteered to be video reviewer during the inaugural year of a quarterly called Counterpoise. The Editor is Charles Willett of the Alternatives in Print Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association (whew!).

If you've been wondering lately where all the zines went -- and not those slick wanna-be Wired clones and trendy "lifestyle" rags either -- you can find out what's happened to them in this directory.

Publisher contacts, rundowns of bibliographic sources (electronic and paper both), reviews of new works, international news roundups and editorials on censorship are regularly included.

Volume 1 Number 1 reviewed the following videos: Deadly Embrace - Nicaragua, the World Bank and the IMF, the dramatized biography Frantz Fanon: black skin, white mask, an expose of island sweatshops called Mickey Mouse Goes To Haiti, and A Narmada Diary by Anand Patwardhan and Simantini Dhuru.

Number 2 should be released by now, and I'm looking over the following possibilities for Number 3:

1. In Whose Honor? - Jay Rosenstein profiles Charlene Teters, a U. of Illinois grad student some call the Rosa Parks of American Indians.
2. Oracle Rising - Claire Burch's "Recreation of the Original Haight Ashbury Hippie Psychedelic Underground Newspaper" is a Regent Press release.
3. Paradise Lost - The controversial HBO documentary about the murder of three boys in Arkansas is part true-crime sleazefest, part political crusade.
4. Some Folks Call It A Sling Blade - This was supposed to be an indie short for it's own sake; now it looks like some folks can call it a Hollywood sell-out.
5. Synthetic Pleasures - Here's an intellectual diet tip: Learn to love that empty feeling.

If you have an indie film you would like to have reviewed on tape, please send a VHS screener to the following address:

Jennifer Kramer
c/o PicPal: The Picture Palace
PO Box 281
Caldwell, NJ 07006

You can find more details on the contents and editorial aims of the publication, as well as instructions on how to subscribe at the official Counterpoise website.

Last updated May 10, 1997.

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