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book		Still life in real time : Theory after television / Richard Dienst Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994. Call No: 62 DIE Author: Dienst, Richard Place: Durham, N.C. Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xvi, 207 pages ; 23 cm Series: Post-contemporary interventions Subject: ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; DERRIDA, JACQUES; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HEIDEGGER, MARTIN; VIDEO RECORDERS Summary: "Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it." -- publisher's advertisement Notes: Includes index -- Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0822314665 Donation: Adrian Miles Contents: Part I: Televisual Flows -- The Outbreak of Television -- Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory -- Part II: Commercial Breaks -- History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story -- Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna -- "Appetite and satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and commerce in Twin Peaks -- Part III: Theoretical images -- The dangers of being in a televisual world: Heidegger and the ontotechnological question -- From post cards to smart bombs (and back again): derrida and the televisual textual system -- Ineluctable modalities of the televisual More info
book		Underground : the secret life of videocassettes in Iran / Blake Atwood Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2021. Call No: 402-48(55) ATW Author: Atwood, Blake Edition: 2021 Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts Publisher: The MIT Press PubDate: 2021 PhysDes: x, 252 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm Series: Infrastructures series Subject: IRAN; UNDER THE SHADOW (UK/JO/IR/Q, Babak Anvari, 2016); SHOLAY (II, Ramesh Sippy, 1975); VIDEO RECORDERS; VIDEO, FILMS ON; VIDEOTAPE DUPLICATION; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS ISBN: 9780262542845 More info
book		Video cassette revolution : The VCR in Australia / Michael Nugent Sydney, N.S.W.: Macquarie University, 2014. Call No: 410.82 NUG Author: Nugent, Michael CorpAuthor: Macquarie University Source: AT Place: Sydney, N.S.W. Publisher: Macquarie University PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: 59 pages ; 30 cm Subject: VIDEO RECORDERS; VIDEO, FILMS ON. AUSTRALIA; VIEWERS. AUSTRALIA; HOME EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; HOME EQUIPMENT; HOME VIDEO. AUSTRALIA Summary: "This thesis is to serve as a history of the Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) in Australia. It has been done because while there are numerous histories relating to other aspects of Australian media, the history of the VCR itself remains little more than an aspect of narratives focused on other phenomena. This was done through extensive examination of discursive sources, such as popular magazines, newspapers and trade journals. By reading these publications over the course of several years, I have been able to identify several trends unfolding over time, noting how popular conceptions of the technology have changed. By comparing these with work done on the history of home video in other countries, it allows for a greater understanding of what is unique to Australia’s history with the VCR. Perhaps the most significant finding is that the idea of what a VCR can offer is perpetually changing. What began as a simple means to record and playback programmes from television broadcasts quickly became a key part of commercial film distribution fundamentally altered the way in which people experience their television sets. As such, a struggle for position by producers, distributors and consumers erupted, as it irrevocably changed media in Australia." FROM ABSTRACT Notes: Thesis paper -- ringbound -- includes acknowledgements and bibliography Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The VCR in the public sphere -- Chapter 3. The VCR in the domestic sphere -- Chapter 4. The legacy of the VCR More info
book		Video playtime : The gendering of a leisure technology London: Routledge, 1992. Call No: 410.82 GRA Author: Gray, Ann Edition: 1992 Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: x,270 p. ; 21 cm Series: Comedia Subject: HOME VIDEO; VIDEO RECORDERS; VIDEO AND TELEVISION; GENDER AND TELEVISION ISBN: 0415058651 Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Questions of method -- 2 Organization of spare time -- 3 Viewing contexts and related texts -- 4 Viewing and reading preferences -- 5 Technology in the domestic environment -- 6 The VCR: time-shift -- 7 The VCR: hiring tapes -- 8 Gender and class in the household -- Appendix: sample details by socio-economic category -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. More info
subject clippings file		VIDEO RECORDERS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: VIDEO RECORDERS More info

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