ABSTRACT
Although film has been available for research, leisure, and commercial purposes since the end of the 19th century, and even though the television and the VCR have been with us for more than a generation, the last decade has seen a new and quite distinct proliferation, transformation, and redistribution of video. Indeed, video, in this loose definition, is now at work in consumer smartphones, car seats, desktop computers, children’s toys, traffic warden’s shoulders, the tools of dentistry, sports coaching, probes for sewer systems, and, of course, film production (where more films are now shot in digital video than in film stock). It is this very proliferation and transformation of video as it traverses settings from the everyday to highly specialized workplaces that provides the motive for this collection.
