March 11. 2004
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Jennifer Dworkin (above center) has a produced a documentary featuring Love Hinson and her family surviving in poverty in the
modern urban environment.
photo by J ennifer D workin
LOVC CMCÌ D ia n e , an Urban Portrait
Jennifer D w orkin’s “Love
and D iane” airs on PBS on
W ednesday, April 21 at 9 p.m.
in a spring edition o f public
telev isio n 's groundbreaking “cy cle o f p o v e rty ,” w hich
P.O .V. series.
haunts many urban women and
“ Love and D iane” puts a single mothers. The docum en­
hum an face on the expression tary follows one family through
poverty, ad d iction, broken
hom es and a crack cocaine
epidemic, which plagued many
inner-city A frican A m ericans
in the 1980s.
Festival, th e 2003 M TV News
“ Love and D iane” w on the D ocum entary A w ard and the
2002 G old Leopard A w ard at TruerThan Fiction Award from
the Locarno International Film Independent Spirit in 2(X)3.
CANNON'S
‘This Heated Place'
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Encounters in the Promised Land
(FORMERLY CHUCK HINTON'S)
Journalist and m edia critic Deborah
peace activists w ho continue to push for co ­
Cam pbell traveled to Israel, the G aza Strip
existence; the settlers w ho w ant no part in
Catering & Take-Out
and the W est Bank to create an honest
that; husbands and w ives in the occupied
O ur S pecialty :
territories w ho want a better life for their
R eai H ickory S moked B ar -B-Q
view o f the conflict in the M iddle East.
‘‘This Heated Place" tells her story.
children and the youth who w ant to live like
C am pbell show s how both sides in this
their peers in the W est.
conflict are saturated in im ages, slogans
and constructs from the m ass media.
Her book attem pts to get beyond the
• Sandwiches • Salads
• Chicken • Pork Ribs
• Beef Ribs
“T his Heated Place” is touted as a signifi­
cant contribution to the understanding of
the civilian lives caught up in the Israeli-
m edia saturation and m anufactured co n ­
Palestinian conflict and the m edia lens which
sent on both sides to show readers the real
continues to frame the war.
lives o f non-com batants, civic leaders and
T he book, published by D ouglas
dissenting voices. C am pbell interview s the
M cIntyre, is available now in paperback.
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