Portable moving images : a media history of storage formats / Ricardo Cedeño Montaña.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cedeño Montaña, Ricardo, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture film--History.

Motion picture film.

Image files--History.

Image files.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This media history explores a series of portable small cameras, playback devices, and storage units that have made the production of film and video available to everyone. Covering several storage formats from 8mm films of the 1900s, through the analogue videotapes of the 1970s, to the compression algorithms of the 2000s, this work examines the effects that the shrinkage of complex machines, media formats, and processing operations has had on the dissemination of moving images. Using an archaeological approach to technical standards of media, the author provides a genealogy of portable storage formats for film, analog video, and digitally encoded video. This book is a step forward in decoding the storage media formats, which up to now have been the domain of highly specialised technicians.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. reduction(o) = e(o) Λ c(o)

2. Film

3. Analogue Video

4. Video Encoding

Outlook

Appendices

Bibliography

Picture Credits

Abbreviations

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110552904

3110552906

9783110553925

3110553929

OCLC:

1004873152