Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne.

Killer tapes and shattered screens video spectatorship from VHS to file sharing / Caetlin Benson-Allott. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9780520954496


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.


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .K555 2013