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Killer tapes and shattered screens [[electronic resource] ] : video spectatorship from VHS to file sharing / / Caetlin Benson-Allott



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Autore: Benson-Allott Caetlin Anne Visualizza persona
Titolo: Killer tapes and shattered screens [[electronic resource] ] : video spectatorship from VHS to file sharing / / Caetlin Benson-Allott Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43/656
Soggetto topico: Cinematography - Technological innovations
Digital video - Production and direction - Data processing
Horror films - History and criticism
Motion picture audiences
Technology in motion pictures
Video recordings industry
Video recordings - Production and direction - Data processing
Soggetto non controllato: apparatus theory
blu ray
box office
case studies
digital video
dvd
file sharing
film and culture
film audiences
film critics
film industry
film scholars
film studies
home viewing
horror movies
media studies
motion pictures
movie culture
movies
nonfiction
piracy
post cinematic
postmodern philosophy
prerecorded video
psychoanalysis
spectatorship
streaming services
thrillers
united states
vhs
video on demand
video platforms
video revenues
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Opening Up to Home Video -- 1. Distributing the Dead Video Spectatorship in the Movies of George A. Romero -- 2. Addressing the "New Flesh" Videodrome's Format War -- 3. Reprotechnophobia Putting an End to Analog Abjection with The Ring -- 4. Going, Going, Grindhouse Simulacral Cinematicity and Postcinematic Spectatorship -- 5. Paranormal Spectatorship Faux Footage Horror and the P2P Spectator -- Conclusion. Power Play -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography, Videography, and Gameography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 Screens examines 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 industry history with apparatus theory, psychoanalysis with platform studies, and production history with postmodern philosophy, Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens unearths a genealogy of post-cinematic spectatorship in horror movies, thrillers, and other exploitation genres. From Night of the Living Dead (1968) through Paranormal Activity (2009), these movies pursue their spectator from one platform to another, adapting to suit new exhibition norms and cultural concerns in the evolution of the video subject.
Titolo autorizzato: Killer tapes and shattered screens  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95449-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779540003321
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