| Videographic Cinema: An Archaeology of Electronic Images and Imaginaries Contributor(s): Rozenkrantz, Jonathan (Author), Herzogenrath, Bernd (Editor), Pisters, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501362429 ISBN-13: 9781501362422 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Media Studies - Business & Economics | Industries - Computers & Information Technology |
| Dewey: 777 |
| LCCN: 2020013007 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.91 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1957, A Face in the Crowdincorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV. In 2015, Kung Fury was infused with analogue noise to evoke the nostalgic feeling of watching an old VHS tape. Between the two films, numerous ones would incorporate video images to imagine the implications of video practices. Drawing on media archaeology, Videographic Cinema shows how such images and imaginaries have emerged, changed and remained over time according to their shifting technical, historical and institutional conditions. Rediscovering forgotten films like Anti-Clock (1979) and reassessing ones like Lost Highway(1997), Jonathan Rozenkrantz charts neglected chapters of video history, including self-confrontation techniques in psychiatry, their complex relation with surveillance, and the invention/discovery of the "videographic psyche" by artists, therapists and filmmakers. Spanning six decades, Videographic Cinemadiscovers an epistemic shift from prospective imaginaries of surveillance and control conditioned on video as a medium for live transmission, to retrospective ones concerned with videotape as a recording memory. It ends by considering videographic filmmaking itself as a form of archaeology in the age of analogue obsolescence. |
