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Video Revolutions - On the History of a Medium (Paperback)
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Video Revolutions - On the History of a Medium (Paperback)
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Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable
part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over
the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a
high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a
force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of
documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name
we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable
medium that bridges analog and digital, amateur and professional,
broadcasting and recording, television and cinema, art and
commercial culture, and old media and new digital networks. 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.
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