Ethnographies of ‘On Demand’ Films
Anthropological Explorations of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions
Alex Vailati editor Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:2nd Oct '22
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Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency. Videos are now made by production units that are at times composed of families, churches, musical groups, community associations or other institutions. Thus, on-demand videos produced and distributed within local and atypical networks profoundly shape contemporary urban imaginaries. This book explores the intertwined relations among infrastructure, technology, and modernity through an ordinary, yet little studied field of "on-demand" audiovisual production, which involves processes of negotiation and interaction between clients and commissioned video makers. On-demand films are considered as a space of collaboration and self-representation, that allows to reflect on the potential of fiction, artifice, and montage to render material desires, aspirations, and ideas of the future.
ISBN: 9783030789138
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282 pages
1st ed. 2021