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There’s No Place Like Home Video
James M. Moran
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Description for There’s No Place Like Home Video
paperback. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AJRH; JFC; UGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
Defines, examines, and elevates home video to its rightful place
From its recording of family events to its influence on filmmaking, home video defies easy categorization and demands serious consideration. In There’s No Place Like Home Video, James Moran takes on this neglected aspect of popular culture. He offers a cultural history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and its symbiotic relationship with television and film. He also investigates the broader field of video, taking on the question of medium specificity: the attempt to define its unique identity, to capture what constitutes ... Read more
In Moran’s discussion of video, he argues that previous scholars have not sufficiently dealt with its nature as hybrid, varied, and mutable. He argues that such a medium shouldn’t be conceived as pure in and of itself; it is neither autonomous from other media nor entirely dependent on any other, but instead has a chameleonlike interface with films, television, computers, telephones, and even architecture. Rather than look for a grand narrative to define its specificity, Moran places video and home video at the intersections of multiple forms of communication. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Visible Evidence
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816638017
SKU
V9780816638017
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About James M. Moran
James M. Moran is adjunct professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College in Los Angeles.
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