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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812933503321

Autore

Moran James M

Titolo

There's No Place Like Home Video [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2002

ISBN

0-8166-9280-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Visible Evidence

Disciplina

384.55/8

384.558

Soggetti

Video recordings

Video recordings - History and criticism

Amateur films - Production and direction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Medium Theory, Home Video, and Other Specifications; 1 What Is Video? Mapping Out Models of Medium Specificity; 2 From Reel Families to Families We Choose: Video in the Home Mode; 3 Modes of Distinction: The Home Mode, the Avant-Garde, and Event Videography; 4 Family Resemblances: The Home Mode as Chronotope; 5 The Video-in-the-Text: A Phenomenology and Narratology of Hybrid Spectatorship; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In There's No Place Like Home Video, James Moran offers a history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and home video's symbiotic relationship with television and film. He also investigates the broader field of video, taking on the question of medium specificity: the attempt to define its unique identity, to capture what constitutes its pure practice.