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Paper Tiger Television

Paper Tiger Television (1981)

January. 01,1981
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Paper Tiger Television

Paper Tiger Television is a public-access television series created in 1981 by a New York–based media collective led by DeeDee Halleck. Produced with a low-budget, do-it-yourself aesthetic, the series features artists, scholars, and activists critically examining mainstream media, often by analyzing newspapers, magazines, or television content on camera. Distributed through public-access channels and grassroots networks, the program became an influential example of alternative media, promoting media literacy and challenging corporate control of information.

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Paper Tiger Television

1981

Paper Tiger Television is a public-access television series created in 1981 by a New York–based media collective led by DeeDee Halleck. Produced with a low-budget, do-it-yourself aesthetic, the series features artists, scholars, and activists critically examining mainstream media, often by analyzing newspapers, magazines, or television content on camera. Distributed through public-access channels and grassroots networks, the program became an influential example of alternative media, promoting media literacy and challenging corporate control of information.

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Seasons & Episode

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Seasons 1 : 1981

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25 Episode

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Episode 2 - Natalie Didn’t Drown: Joan Braderman Reads The National Enquirer
January. 01,1982
Episode 3 - Stuart Ewen Reads The New York Post: Fantasy, Morality and Authority
January. 07,1982
Episode 4 - Bill Tabb Reads U.S. News & World Report: Disrobing the Economy
May. 26,1982
Episode 5 - Tuli Kupferberg Reads Rolling Stone: Always Smile When You Give ’em the Shaft
October. 13,1982
Episode 6 - Martha Rosler Reads Vogue: Wishing, Dreaming, Winning, Spending
December. 01,1982
Episode 7 - Archie Singham Reads Foreign Policy: A Look at the Old Boy’s Network
May. 04,1983
Episode 8 - Joel Kovel Reads Life Magazine: It’s a New Life, Painting a Corpse
September. 21,1983
Episode 9 - Stanley Aronowitz Reads The New York Times: A Timely Look at Labor
September. 22,1983
Episode 10 - Elayne Rapping Swoons to Romance Novels
September. 23,1983
Episode 12 - Patty Zimmerman Reads Variety: Hooray for Hollywood
June. 20,1984
Episode 13 - Pearl Bowser Looks at Early Black Cinema: The Legacy of Oscar Micheaux
June. 21,1984
Episode 14 - Renee Tajima Reads Asian Images in American Film: Charlie Chan Go Home!
June. 22,1984
Episode 15 - Marc Crispin Miller Reads Cigarette Ads: Lots More Ifs, Ands & Butts
January. 01,1985
Episode 16 - Jean Franco Reads Mexican Novelas: Adiós Machismo! Hola Maquilladora
January. 03,1985
Episode 17 - Flo Kennedy Reads U.S. Press on South Africa: The Hair in the Milk
February. 01,1985
Episode 18 - Noam Chomsky Reads The New York Times: Seeking Peace in the Middle East
June. 01,1985
Episode 19 - Thulani Davis Asks, Why Howard Beach?: Racial Violence and the Media
January. 21,1987
Episode 20 - Donna Haraway Reads The National Geographic on Primates
January. 22,1987
Episode 21 - Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M
January. 01,1988
Episode 22 - Fred Landis Reads The Washington Times: The Dark Side of the Moonie
January. 01,1989
Episode 23 - Protest + Education Can Equal Change (featuring Kathy High)
January. 01,1992
Episode 24 - The Last Graduation: The Rise and Fall of College Programs in Prison
January. 01,1997
Episode 25 - Class Dismissed (featuring Howard Zinn and James Loewen)
January. 01,2004

Paper Tiger Television is a public-access television series created in 1981 by a New York–based media collective led by DeeDee Halleck. Produced with a low-budget, do-it-yourself aesthetic, the series features artists, scholars, and activists critically examining mainstream media, often by analyzing newspapers, magazines, or television content on camera. Distributed through public-access channels and grassroots networks, the program became an influential example of alternative media, promoting media literacy and challenging corporate control of information.

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