TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newman,Michael Z.
TI  - Video revolutions: on the history of a medium 
SN  - 9780231537759
AV  - PN1992.N554.N496 2014 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Video recordings
KW  - History
KW  - Genres, other
KW  - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
KW  - various
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Three phases --; Video as television --; Video as alternative --; Video as the moving image --; Medium and cultural status; 2; b
N2  - "Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable medium that bridges analog and digital, amateur and professional, broadcasting and recording, television and cinema, art and commercial culture, and old media and new digital networks. In this history, Michael Z. Newman casts video as a medium of shifting value and legitimacy in relation to other media and technologies, particularly film and television. Video has been imagined as more or less authentic or artistic than movies or television, as more or less democratic and participatory, as more or less capable of capturing the real. Techno-utopian rhetoric has repeatedly represented video as a revolutionary medium, promising to solve the problems of the past and the present --
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