| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: opening up to home video -- Distributing The dead: George A. Romero and the evolution of the video spectator -- Addressing the "new flesh": videodrome's format war -- Reprotechnophobia: putting an end to analog abjection with the ring -- Going, going, grindhouse: simulacral cinematicity and post-cinematic spectatorship -- Paranormal spectatorship: faux footage horror and the P2P spectator -- Conclusion: power play. |
| Summary |
Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the structuring discourse of US movie culture. Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens examines how prerecorded video reframes the premises and promises of motion picture spectatorship. But instead of offering a history of video technology or reception, Caetlin Benson-Allott analyzes how the movies themselves understand and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technology in motion pictures.
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Technology in motion pictures. |
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Cinematography -- Technological innovations.
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Cinematography -- Technological innovations. |
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Cinematography. |
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Horror films. |
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Motion picture audiences.
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Motion picture audiences. |
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Video recordings -- Production and direction -- Data processing.
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Video recordings -- Production and direction -- Data processing. |
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Video recordings -- Production and direction. |
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Digital video -- Production and direction -- Data processing.
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Digital video. |
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Video recordings industry.
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Video recordings industry. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne. Killer tapes and shattered screens 9780520275102 (DLC) 2012038612 (OCoLC)818734523 |
| ISBN |
0520954491 (electronic book) |
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9780520954496 (electronic book) |
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9780520275102 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520275101 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520275126 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520275128 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1299444377 |
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9781299444379 |
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