Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Video Media PART ONE THEORY Videography: The Helical Scan Video, Modernity and Modernism In Search of the Lost Audience The Subject of Art Vision Video in the Field of Film Enthusiasm Video Looks at Television Sound: Video, Noise and Music PART TWO PRACTICE Magnetic Memories: Video, Power and Representation The Monk and the Maenad: Dialectics of the Video Apparatus Allegory and Crisis of Signification Inconclusion Electronic Ecology Chronology List of Videos and Distributors Bibliography Index.

About the Author

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia.