Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium

by Michael Z. Newman

Book Overview

Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231169515
• ISBN13: 9780231169516
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 6.7"