| Title | Old Media's Ressurection |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Linnéa Hussein (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0053.1.23 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-funambulist-papers-vol-1/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Hussein, Linnéa |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-10-23 |
| Long abstract | In October 2011 The New York Times published an article on the re-vival of the VHS tape in the horror film genre.1 What makes these so-called neo-VHS tapes different from their outdated VHS companions is the fact that their role transformed from technical to aesthetic. En-tire magazines, such as Lunchmeat and Fangoria, are devoted to the subject of VHS now. For these horror fans, neo-VHS is not preferred for functional reasons, but because the grainy picture quality — the signs of usage that caused DVD and BluRay to replace VHS in the first place — became an indispensable trope for the bad horror film genre. Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University) talks about a similar notion of old media recycling when writing about The Color of Love:It seems that the real erotic activity...is not between the actors but in the game with death taking place on the surface of the film...the film’s emulsion flowers and evaporates, giving itself up to bliss and death |
| Page range | pp. 125–128 |
| Print length | 4 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |