Books written by Caetlin Benson-Allott
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The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television
Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica, 29. 38. Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica, 29. 39. Michael Z. Newman, “From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative,” Velvet ...
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Remote Control
Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world.
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The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television
Church, Disposable Passions, 49. 78. Cherchi Usai defines the Model Image as “a complete experience of the narrative and the pictorial character of the moving image.” To be complete, it must exist outside of history and is therefore a ...
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Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing
This ambitious book deserves to be a new foundational text. “ —Lucas Hilderbrand, author of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright ".
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Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing
52 This dual focus makes the camera seem possessed, for it reveals it to be as vulnerable to outside control as the characters. It also places the spectator—the illicit or at least unanticipated beneficiary ofthe camera's look—in the ...
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The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television
John Ellis, Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video, rev. ed. (New York: Routledge, 1992), 25. For rare examples of past scholarship on inebriated spectatorship, see David Church, “The Doors of Reception: Notes Towards a Psychedelic ...
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Remote Control
Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world.