Analogue video in the age of retrospectacle: aesthetics, technology, subculture

dc.contributor.authorRozenkrantz, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-03T12:30:43Z
dc.date.available2018-05-03T12:30:43Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the various manifestations of analogue video in digital culture. Introducing the framing concept of an aesthetics of remanence, it argues that the “society of the spectacle” (Debord) has entered an age of retrospectacle, a dominant signifier of which is the remediation and/or simulation of analogue videography. The concept of remanence connects the material conditions of magnetic tape with analogue video’s aesthetic expressions, and the cultural situation in which analogue video finds itself today. By looking at three different cases related to retro gaming, contemporary hip hop, and “old skool” rave, the article shows how the aesthetics of remanence remains highly susceptible to subcultural sensibilities—while it also functions as their shared visual variable. The short film Kung Fury (David Sandberg, 2015) is a playfully post-ironic recuperation of failed media technologies. The music video “Fromdatomb$” (David M. Helman, 2012) is a complex exploration of the idea(l) of the historical real. And the work of video art Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (Mark Leckey, 1999) is a creative treatment of nostalgia which invites us to reconsider the medical origins of the term.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationRozenkrantz, J. (2016) 'Analogue video in the age of retrospectacle: aesthetics, technology, subculture', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 12, pp. 39-58. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.12.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.12.03
dc.identifier.endpage58
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued12
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage39
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6013
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue12/12_3Article_Rozenkratz.pdf
dc.rights© 2016, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDigital cultureen
dc.subjectAnalogue videoen
dc.subjectAesthetics of remanenceen
dc.subjectNostalgiaen
dc.subjectRetro gamingen
dc.subjectKung Furyen
dc.subjectContemporary hip hopen
dc.subjectRaveen
dc.subjectFromdatomb$en
dc.subjectFiorucci Made Me Hardcoreen
dc.titleAnalogue video in the age of retrospectacle: aesthetics, technology, subcultureen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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