Videographic Cinema: An Archaeology of Electronic Images and Imaginaries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501369315)

In 1957, A Face in the Crowdincorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV. In 2015, Kung Fury was infused with analogue noise to evoke the nostalgic feeling of watching an old VHS tape. Between the two films, numerous ones would incorporate video images to imagine the implications of video practices. Drawing on media archaeology, Videographic Cinema shows how such images and imaginaries have emerged, changed and remained over time according to their shifting technical, historical and institutional conditions.

Rediscovering forgotten films like Anti-Clock (1979) and reassessing ones like Lost Highway(1997), Jonathan Rozenkrantz charts neglected chapters of video history, including self-confrontation techniques in psychiatry, their complex relation with surveillance, and the invention/discovery of the "videographic psyche" by artists, therapists and filmmakers. Spanning six decades, Videographic Cinemadiscovers an epistemic shift from prospective imaginaries of surveillance and control conditioned on video as a medium for live transmission, to retrospective ones concerned with videotape as a recording memory. It ends by considering videographic filmmaking itself as a form of archaeology in the age of analogue obsolescence.


Author: Jonathan Rozenkrantz
ISBN-10: 1501369318
ISBN-13: 9781501369315
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2022
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d