There's No Place Like Home Video

There's No Place Like Home Video
ISBN-10
0816638004
ISBN-13
9780816638000
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
226
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Visible Evidence (Hardcover)
Author
James M. Moran

Description

From its recording of family events to its influence on filmmaking, home video defies easy categorization and demands serious consideration. In There's No Place Like Home Video, James Moran takes on this neglected aspect of popular culture. He offers a history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and its symbiotic relationship with television and film. He also investigates the broader field of video, taking on the question of medium specificity: the attempt to define its unique identity, to capture what constitutes its pure practice. Rather than look for a grand narrative to define its specificity, Moran places video and home video at the intersections of multiple forms of communication. Book jacket.

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