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In an age of digital technology and renewed anxiety about media piracy, Inherent Vice revisits the recent analog past with an eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video. Analog videotape was introduced to consumers as a blank format, essentially as a bootleg technology, for recording television without permission. The studios initially resisted VCRs and began legal action to oppose their marketing. In turn, U.S. courts controversially reinterpreted copyright law to protect users' right to record, while content owners eventually developed ways to exploit the video market. Lucas Hilderbrand shows how videotape and fair use offer essential lessons relevant to contemporary progressive media policy.Videotape not only radically changed how audiences accessed the content they wanted and loved but also altered how they watched it. Hilderbrand develops an aesthetic theory of analog video, an "aesthetics of access" most boldly embodied by bootleg videos. He contends that the medium specificity of videotape becomes most apparent through repeated duplication, wear, and technical failure; video's visible and audible degeneration signals its uses for legal transgressions and illicit pleasures. Bringing formal and cultural analysis into dialogue with industrial history and case law, Hilderbrand examines four decades of often overlooked histories of video recording, including the first network news archive, the underground circulation of Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a feminist tape-sharing network, and the phenomenally popular website YouTube. This book reveals the creative uses of videotape that have made essential content more accessible and expanded our understanding of copyright law. It is a politically provocative, unabashedly nostalgic ode to analog.

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	28 mai 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822392194
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice:Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright

Lucas HilderbrandDuke University Press|Durham and London|2009

© 2009 Duke University Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paperb Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Whitman by Achorn International Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data and republication acknowledgments appear on the last printed pages of this book.

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Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xxi

Part I Videotape and Copyright

Introduction: The Aesthetics of Access 3

Video Clip 1: Diasporic Asian Video Markets in Orange County 27

1.Be Kind, Rewind: The Histories and Erotics of Home Video 33

Video Clip 2: Chiller Theatre Toy, Model, and Film Expo 73

2.The Fairest of Them All? Home Video, Copyright, and Fair Use 77

Part II Case Studies

3.The Revolution Was Recorded: Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Copyright in Conﬂict, and the Making oftvHistory 117

Video Clip 3: Experimental Film on Video: A Frameworks Debate 157

4.Grainy Days and Mondays:Superstarand Bootleg Aesthetics 161

Video Clip 4: Tape Art 191

5.Joanie and Jackie and Everyone They Know: Video Chainletters as Feminist Community Network 195

Epilogue: YouTube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge 225

Timeline 245

Notes 251

Bibliography 287

Index 311

List of Illustrations

1. Sign for a video store that rentsvcrs xiv 2. Print advertisement for the Sony Betamax 9 3a–c. Video degeneration 14 4.vhstapes of Koreantvserials 28 5. Hidden shelves of Koreanvhstapes 29 6.vhsJapanesetvbootlegs on clearance 31 7a–b.NewsweekandTimeproclaim a “video revolution” on their covers in 1984 45 8. The earliest Sony Betamax 47 9. An electronics store, circa 1984 56 10. Jane Fonda’sWorkout 60 11. The second Rob Lowe sex tape 69 12a–b. The Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson sex tape 70 13.vhsbootlegs on closeout at a fan convention 74 14. Print advertisement for a Toshiba Betamax 92 15.Timemagazine’s coverage of the Supreme Court decision inSony v. Universal 100 16. Paul Simpson, founder of Vanderbilt Television News Archive 120 17. James Pilkington,vtnaadministrator 125 18a–b. Video recording and study stations at thevtnain the early days 127 19a–d.nbcnews coverage of the protests and violence during the 1968 Democratic National Convention 130–131 20. Fuzzy footage of President Nixon on thevtna’s promo reel 134 21.vtnafootage from the localcbsnews report the day the network ﬁled suit against the archive 146