"[An] essential, revelatory examination of intermediality and politics in the 1960s. . . Erica Levin’s assured study of artists and experimental filmmakers confronts what she labels the ‘media politics’ of television."

Art History

"The Channeled Image offers keen insights into the artists in the 1960s and how they marshaled a variety of media to both engage with and challenge the norms of commercial and public television. Levin’s clear and forceful critique illuminates the intentions of these artists, their successes, and their failures, drawing attention to a number of works that have received relatively scant scholarly attention and placing those works in conversation with one another. This book will be a boon to the fields of art history and media studies alike."
 

Gregory Zinman, author of Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts

"The Channeled Image boldly redraws the map of the 1960s, a time when television news mediated social upheaval and artists critically engaged the medium’s power and immediacy. In crisp and assured prose, Levin reveals the era to be messier and more complex than previous studies have allowed it to be. This is a brilliant and necessary book for understanding art’s entanglements with mass media, both then and now."

Genevieve Yue, author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality