Videography : Video Media as Art and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780333555569 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 264 str.

Sean Cubitt

Opis

Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. It provides a materialist account of video and computer media as they are practised and used today. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene. The remainder of the book is devoted to close analysis of work, from amateur video to computer graphics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Video Media.- PART ONE THEORY.- Videography: The Helical Scan Video, Modernity and Modernism.- In Search of the Lost Audience.- The Subject of Art Vision Video in the Field of Film Enthusiasm.- Video Looks at Television Sound: Video, Noise and Music.- PART TWO PRACTICE.- Magnetic Memories: Video, Power and Representation.- The Monk and the Maenad: Dialectics of the Video Apparatus.- Allegory and Crisis of Signification Inconclusion.- Electronic Ecology Chronology.-List of Videos and Distributors.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia.