Video cultures
Subtitle: media technology and everyday creativity
By: David Buckingham and Rebekah Willett.
Contributors: Willett, Rebekah.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780230221864
Subjects: Video recordings -- Production and direction; Video recording
Description: "Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology. These essays explore the theoretical significance of this trend and its impact on society, as well as examining a wide range of case studies, from camcorders and camera phones to YouTube and citizen journalism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Figures * Acknowledgements * In The Frame: Mapping Camcorder Cultures; title: R.Willett * A Commonplace Art? Understanding Amateur Media Production; title: D.Buckingham * 'Take Back The Tube!': The Discursive Construction of Amateur Film- and Video-Making; title: D.Buckingham, M.Pini & R.Willett * Inside the Home Mode; title: M.Pini * Speaking Back? In Search of the Citizen Journalist; title: D.Buckingham * Parodic Practices: Amateur Spoofs on Video Sharing Sites; title: R.Willett * Skate Perception: Self-Representation, Identity and Visual Style in a Youth Subculture; title: D.Buckingham* Handing Over Control? Access, 'Ordinary People' and Video Nation; title: J.Henderson * In The Bedroom: Sex on Video; title: M.Pini * The Hidden World of Organised Amateur Film-Making; title: D.Buckingham * Always On: Camera Phones, Video Production and Identity; title: R.Willett * Power To The People? The Past and Future of Amateur Video; title: D.Buckingham * Notes * Index List of Figures * Acknowledgements * In The Frame: Mapping Camcorder Cultures; title: R.Willett * A Commonplace Art? Understanding Amateur Media Production; title: D.Buckingham * 'Take Back The Tube!': The Discursive Construction of Amateur Film- and Video-Making; title: D.Buckingham, M.Pini & R.Willett * Inside the Home Mode; title: M.Pini * Speaking Back? In Search of the Citizen Journalist; title: D.Buckingham * Parodic Practices: Amateur Spoofs on Video Sharing Sites; title: R.Willett * Skate Perception: Self-Representation, Identity and Visual Style in a Youth Subculture; title: D.Buckingham* Handing Over Control? Access, 'Ordinary People' and Video Nation; title: J.Henderson * In The Bedroom: Sex on Video; title: M.Pini * The Hidden World of Organised Amateur Film-Making; title: D.Buckingham * Always On: Camera Phones, Video Production and Identity; title: R.Willett * Power To The People? The Past and Future of Amateur Video; title: D.Buckingham * Notes * Index.