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On Video

Author
Roy Armes
Publisher
Routledge
Place
New York, NY
ETC archive
ETC0109

Abstract

Video in an historical and social context; aesthetics of video image and sound; video in the computer age.
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Roy Armes. On Video. Routledge. 1988.

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