Sign Crimes/Road Kill: From Mediascape to Landscape

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

In her fourth collection for Between the Lines, Nelson, who writes about
culture and the media, has selected 30 articles from the 70-plus that
she has written over the past 15 years for such publications as Canadian
Forum, Cinema Canada, Borderlines, Broadside, Compass, Fuse, Graffiti,
In Search, La Parole Meteque, and This Magazine. It is an eclectic
collection, chosen with the motivation of self-discovery. Topics include
George Bush’s new world order, Walt Disney, Pierre Juneau, trees,
Allan Gotlieb, ecobabble, ecofeminism, PEN, the movie Jesus of Montreal,
and soap operas. Much of the collection deals with some aspect of
television watching and how we all assimilate or reject certain issues.
If you have not read Joyce Nelson before, this well-written book is a
good place to begin.