Broader Alliances

The importance of addressing non-commercial film and television rests on the prevailing economic and political configuration of the moving-image arts in the United States. They are expensive, their accessibility is privately controlled, they are largely monopolistic, and the communication exchange between the owner-producers and the public market is unilateral since discourse production flows in only one direction. The latter is a normal capitalist market relationship, but the reason for concern here is that film and video have become like reading and writing in their importance to the exchange of information. If American democracy is founded on the necessity of universal education and literacy, then access to film and video production and knowledge have become a social imperative

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