Shot and never seen again

Jonathan Larcher (1, 2, 3)

1 UPN - Université Paris Nanterre
2 HAR - Histoire des Arts et des Représentations
3 École universitaire de recherche ArTeC

What if videotapes were considered as either waste or commodityto 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 postsocialist Romanian media infrastructure, that distributed pirated media, home movies, and local television productions.

Mots clés: Anthropologie; Medienarchäologie; Piraterie; Rumänien; 1990er Jahre; 2000er Jahre; Videotechnik

Mots clés: anthropology; home movies; media archaeology; piracy; video; 1990s; 2000s

Domaines: Art et histoire de l'art; Histoire; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Jonathan Larcher. Shot and never seen again: Videotapes as waste and merchandise in post-socialist Romania. Necsus - European Journal of Media Studies, 2021, 10 (1), pp.121-143. ⟨hal-03505452⟩