Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. It provides a materialist account of video and computer media as they are practised and used today. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene. The remainder of the book is devoted to close analysis of work, from amateur video to computer graphics.

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Video Media
PART ONE THEORY
Videography: The Helical Scan Video, Modernity and Modernism
In Search of the Lost Audience
The Subject of Art Vision Video in the Field of Film Enthusiasm
Video Looks at Television Sound: Video, Noise and Music
PART TWO PRACTICE
Magnetic Memories: Video, Power and Representation
The Monk and the Maenad: Dialectics of the Video Apparatus
Allegory and Crisis of Signification Inconclusion
Electronic Ecology Chronology
List of Videos and Distributors
Bibliography
Index.