Grounding TV’s Material Heritage: Place-based Projects That Value or Vilify Amateur Videocassette Recordings of Television
Author(s): VanderBurgh, Jennifer
Abstract
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.
Preferred Citation
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: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14766.
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