Videotape / Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy.

Main entry:

Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Title & Author:

Videotape / Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy.

Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
©2025

Description:

147 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Series:

Object lessons

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A star is born -- Owning the story -- Video nasties behind the green door in the US and Britain -- Viewing parties and the party -- Business models -- Nostalgia and the VHS aesthetic.

Summary:

"Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. In the West, its advent deepened the trends of the age: individualism, consumerism, and the fragmentation of society. In the East, it encouraged new forms of socialization and economic exchanges, while announcing the gradual crumbling of government control over the imagination of the people. By the mid-1990s, the VHS format was displaced by the DVD, then by streaming. Yet the cultural legacy of the videotape continues to inform our relationship to technology, privacy, and to entertainment"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9798765100004 (paperback)
(electronic book)
9798765100028
9798765100011

Subject:

Video tape recorders History.
Video tape recorder industry History.
Video recordings Social aspects.
Magnétoscopes Histoire.
Vidéos Aspect social.
Magnétoscopes Industrie Histoire.

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Object lessons.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 323618
Call No.: 323618
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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