{"product_id":"killer-tapes-and-shattered-screens-9780520275126","title":"Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Insightful and original... [A] genuinely significant study.\" -- Linnie Blake Times Higher Education \"Exquisitely argued and researched work.\" 10 Best Film-Studies Books of 2013. -- Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine \"Intriguing.\" -- W. W. Dixon CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402860274007,"sku":"9780520275126","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/killer-tapes-and-shattered-screens-9780520275126","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}