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Grounding TV’s Material Heritage: Place-based Projects That Value or Vilify Amateur Videocassette Recordings of Television

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VCRs were once prized for their ability to allow amateurs to create material records of ephemeral television broadcasts. But what value do amateur video-recordings of television have at their late stage of obsolescence? This article outlines some of the discursive parameters surrounding the perceived use-value of amateur video-recordings of television, drawing on case studies of video collection projects that are divided on the question of whether amateur television video-recordings continue to have merit. It argues that both advocates and detractors of videocassette recordings of television tend to rely on place-based heritage discourses in order to value or vilify them.

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VanderBurgh, Jennifer: Grounding TV’s Material Heritage: Place-based Projects That Value or Vilify Amateur Videocassette Recordings of Television. In: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, Jg. 8 (2019-10-27), Nr. 15, S. 59-78. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14766.
@ARTICLE{VanderBurgh2019-10-27,
 author = {VanderBurgh, Jennifer},
 title = {Grounding TV’s Material Heritage: Place-based Projects That Value or Vilify Amateur Videocassette Recordings of Television},
 year = 2019-10-27,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14766}",
 volume = 8,
 address = {Hilversum},
 journal = {VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture},
 number = 15,
 pages = {59--78},
}
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