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Title:
Video revolutions : on the history of a medium / Michael Z. Newman.
Author:
Newman, Michael Z., author.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.

©2014
Call Number:
PN1992.935 .N49 2014
Abstract:
"In this history, Michael Z. Newman casts video as a medium of shifting value and legitimacy in relation to other media and technologies, particularly film and television. Video has been imagined as more or less authentic or artistic than movies or television, as more or less democratic and participatory, as more or less capable of capturing the real. Techno-utopian rhetoric has repeatedly represented video as a revolutionary medium, promising to solve the problems of the past and the present--often the very problems associated with television and the society shaped by it--and to deliver a better future. Video has also been seen more negatively, particularly as a threat to movies and their culture. This study considers video as an object of these hopes and fears and builds an approach to thinking about the concept of the medium in terms of cultural status." -- Columbia University Press website, https://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16951-6/video-revolutions
ISBN:
9780231169516
Physical Description:
xiv, 138 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Contents:
Three Phases -- Video as television -- Video as alternative -- Video as the moving image -- Medium and cultural status.
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