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.
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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.