Videotape
$21.95
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2025
Summary
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the dynamics of the ‘80s and foreshadowed the seismic cultural shifts to come after the Cold War.
In the West, its advent deepened the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798765100004 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Dr. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 164mm x 120mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Object Lessons |
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Critics Review
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy tells the story of how videotape – once an essential medium, now a nostalgia object – set us up for the current age of streaming platforms and interfaces. * Michael Z. Newman, author of Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium (2014) *
About The Author
Dr. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, Ohio, USA. She is the author of Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination (2022).
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