There's No Place Like Home Video

by Moran, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780816638017
• ISBN10: 0816638012
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

From its recording of family events to its influence on filmmaking, home video defies easy categorization and demands serious consideration. In There's No Place Like Home Video, James Moran takes on this neglected aspect of popular culture. He offers a history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and its symbiotic relationship with television and film. He also investigates the broader field of video, taking on the question of medium specificity: the attempt to define its unique identity, to capture what constitutes its pure practice. Rather than look for a grand narrative to define its specificity, Moran places video and home video at the intersections of multiple forms of communication. Book jacket.

Author Biography

James M. Moran is adjunct professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Medium Theory, Home Video, and Other Specifications	xi
What Is Video? Mapping Out Models of Medium Specificity	1	(32)
From Reel Families to Families We Choose: Video in the Home Mode	33	(31)
Modes of Distinction: The Home Mode, the Avant-Garde, and Event Videography	64	(33)
Family Resemblances: The Home Mode as Chronotope	97	(66)
The Video-in-the-Text: A Phenomenology and Narratology of Hybrid Spectatorship	163	(42)
Notes	205	(14)
Index	219