Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing

Name: Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing
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ISBN: 9780520275126

ISBN-10: 0520275128

ISBN-13: 9780520275126

Edition: 2013

Authors: Caetlin Benson-Allott

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Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the structuring discourse of US movie culture.Killer Tapes and Shattered Screensexamines how prerecorded video reframes the premises and promises of motion picture spectatorship. But instead of offering a history of video technology or reception, Caetlin Benson-Allott analyzes how the movies themselves understand and represent the symbiosis of platform and spectator. Through case studies and close readings that blend…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Opening Up to Home Video



Distributing the Dead: Video Spectatorship in the Movies of George A. Romero



Addressing the "New Flesh": Videodrome's Format War



Reprotechnophobia: Putting an End to Analog Abjection with The Ring



Going, Going, Grindhouse: Simulacral Cinematicity and Postcinematic Spectatorship



Paranormal Spectatorship: Faux Footage Horror and the P2P Spectator


Conclusion: Power Play


Notes


Bibliography


Filmography, Videography, and Gameography


Index