Article: Shot and never seen again: Videotapes as waste and merchandise in post-socialist Romania
Abstract
What if videotapes were considered as either waste or commodity – to be forgotten, or sold and reused and re-recorded? This is the question raised by this text, which gives an account of a multi-sited ethnographic project that follows the human and material circulation of amateur analogue video technologies in Romania since the mid-1980s. At the intersection of anthropology and media archaeology, this text aims to show how videotapes have been an important part of a post-socialist Romanian media infrastructure, that distributed pirated media, home movies, and local television productions.
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Larcher, Jonathan: Shot and never seen again: Videotapes as waste and merchandise in post-socialist Romania. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 10 (2021-06-08), Nr. 1, S. 121-143. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16271.
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author = {Larcher, Jonathan},
title = {Shot and never seen again: Videotapes as waste and merchandise in post-socialist Romania},
year = 2021-06-08,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16271}",
volume = 10,
journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
number = 1,
pages = {121--143},
}
author = {Larcher, Jonathan},
title = {Shot and never seen again: Videotapes as waste and merchandise in post-socialist Romania},
year = 2021-06-08,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16271}",
volume = 10,
journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
number = 1,
pages = {121--143},
}
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