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Zusatztext "Intriguing." Informationen zum Autor Caetlin Benson-Allott is Assistant Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Georgetown University. Klappentext “We have needed a book like this for decades: a new understanding of film spectatorship in light of home video. Caetlin Benson-Allott offers a smart and often unexpected reconsideration of watching movies on small screens that ingeniously brings together film theory, industrial history, and horror flicks, weaving a complex yet crystalline account. This ambitious book deserves to be a new foundational text. “ —Lucas Hilderbrand, author of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright "...Incredibly engaging and compelling in its grappling with an underrepresented area of study that richly deserves the kind of full-bodied treatment this author gives it. Hats off."—Barbara Klinger, author of Beyond The Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home Zusammenfassung Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. This title examines how prerecorded video reframes the premises and promises of motion picture spectatorship. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Opening Up to Home Video 1. Distributing the Dead: Video Spectatorship in the Films of George A. Romero 2. Addressing the "New Flesh": Videodrome's Format War 3. Reprotechnophobia: Putting an End to Analog Abjection with The Ring 4. Going! Going! Grindhouse: Simulacral Cinematicity and Postcinematic Spectatorship 5. Paranormal Spectatorship: Faux Footage Horror and the P2P Spectator Conclusion: Power Play Notes Bibliography Filmography! Videography! and Gameography Index ...
