Killer tapes and shattered screens : video spectatorship from VHS to file sharing / Caetlin Benson-Allott.
by
 
Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne, author.

ISBN
9780520954496

Title
Killer tapes and shattered screens : video spectatorship from VHS to file sharing / Caetlin Benson-Allott.

Author
Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne, author.

Personal Author
Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne, author.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : illustrations

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.

Local Note
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Subject Term
Technology in motion pictures.
 
Cinematography -- Technological innovations.
 
Horror films -- History and criticism.
 
Motion picture audiences.
 
Video recordings -- Production and direction -- Data processing.
 
Digital video -- Production and direction -- Data processing.
 
Video recordings industry.

Format
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
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Publication Date
2013

Publication Information
Berkeley :
 
University of California Press,
 
2013.


Shelf NumberMaterial TypeCopyShelf LocationStatus
791.43656 231:E-BOOK11:ONLINEAvailable for online access and/or download