Videographic Cinema An Archaeology of Electronic Images and Imaginaries : An Archaeology of Electronic Images andImaginaries

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated 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 Cinema discovers 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. Contents 6 Acknowledgements 9 Conditions 12 Condition 1: What is videographic cinema? 14 Condition 2: Archaeology how? 27 Part One: Emergence 50 1 Futurity effects: The emergence of videographic cinema 52 2 Canned life: Imagining reality TV 76 3 Autopticon: Video therapy and/as surveillance 104 Part Two: Remanence 122 4 Mnemopticon: Creative treatment of psychic reality 124 5 Vilified videophiles: Nightmares of video’s home invasion 148 6 Arrière-Garde: Videographic cinema as media archaeology 166 Conclusion: An archaeology of videographic cinema 194 Bibliography 200 Index 216 "This book scans six decades of videographic cinema from the point of view of its shifting conditions of existence"-- Provided by publisher