| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Thinking Media series |
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Thinking media (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Conditions -- Condition 1: What is videographic cinema? -- Condition 2: Archaeology how? -- Media archaeology as the study of media conditions -- Media archaeology as the study of media images and imaginaries -- Media archaeology as historiography theorized/theory historicized -- Where is video/when is video? -- Mapping and tracking videographic cinema -- Part 1: Emergence -- Chapter 1: Futurity effects: The emergence of videographic cinema -- A credible reference to a possible future: Defining the futurity effect |
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Roll bars and roller skates: Challenges of capturing video on film -- A pioneer and his predecessor: Live television as condition for videographic cinema -- Entering the electronic labyrinth: The video utopia estranged -- Flickering faces and multiplied figures: Two videographic futurity effects -- Chapter 2: Canned life: Imagining reality TV -- The deadly threat of live TV: A Face in the Crowd as intermedia warfare -- Live loops and canned laughter: TV tools for demagoguery and deception -- The 'social experiment' as televised spectacle: The canned life of The Model Couple |
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Reality as infomercial: The social engineering of ideal consumers -- The host as collaborator and the terrorist as clown: TV's 'nihilism of neutralization' -- Canned death: Roddy's TV-eye in Death Watch -- Chapter 3: Autopticon: Video therapy and/as surveillance -- Panopticism, synopticism, autopticism: Three functions of modern surveillance -- The emergence of video surveillance: CCTV before 1970 -- Paving the way for Dr Phil: American dreams of synoptic psychiatry -- 'An historical breakthrough': Discovering the autoptic function -- Interpersonal process recall: The therapist as interrogator |
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Self-acceptance -- self-correction: Two poles (and a Scottish poem) -- The psychopathology of private life: Transparency as social imperative -- Autopticon and on (and on): The screen is the prison of the body -- Part 2: Remanence -- Chapter 4: Mnemopticon: Creative treatment of psychic reality -- The emergence of the videographic psyche: The therapist as artist -- Imaginary flashbacks and revelations: Video 'dreams' in Viva la muerte -- From cybernetic acupuncture to Sufi meditation: The artist as therapist -- Mnemopticon 79: Memory monitors in Anti-Clock |
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Chapter 5: Vilified videophiles: Nightmares of video's home invasion -- The rise and fall of home video: From highbrow promise to 'Boston Strangler' -- Long live the canned flesh: Alive on tape in Videodrome -- Patrick, Otis, Benny, and us: Shell children of the video revolution -- Treating erasure anxieties: From Family Viewing to The Fourth Kind -- Mnemopticon 97: Capturing nightmares of home invasion -- Chapter 6: Arrière-Garde: Videographic cinema as media archaeology -- From culture industry to retrospectacle: The coming of millennial time |
| Summary |
"This book scans six decades of videographic cinema from the point of view of its shifting conditions of existence"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Kung Fury gets the VCR treatment: Technical failure as cinematic retrospectacle |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2021) |
| Subject |
Video recording -- Aesthetics
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Video recordings in motion pictures.
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Cinematography -- History
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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Film theory & criticism.
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Cinematography
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Video recordings in motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1501362402 |
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9781501362415 |
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1501362410 |
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9781501362408 |
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