Dee Dee Halleck
Dee Dee Halleck now teaches in The Department of Communication University of California, San Diego and continues to work as a media activist.
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Paper Tiger Television, 6:19 min Dee Dee Halleck | ||
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For the last fifteen years, thousands of Manhattan Cable subscribers have enjoyed the intelligent, irreverent, ultra-low-budget antics of Paper Tiger Television. This weekly half-hour of commentary and satire on modern culture is unlike anything else on the tube. What is most obvious, at first, is the content: a variety of radical critiques of mass culture and politics. But what I find most interesting is the process and form of Paper Tiger. In 1985, early in Paper Tiger's evolution, I interviewed Dee Dee Halleck, one of Paper Tiger's founders, about how the shows got made. The collective, anarchic, improvisational quality of the shows, along with the way the economics of production are built into their presentation, make them wonderful examples of modern vernacular culture.
Dee Dee Halleck now teaches in The Department of Communication University of California, San Diego and continues to work as a media activist. |
