Democratic Television in The Netherlands

Democratic Television in The Netherlands

For this article, the authors retrieved two curious cases of nonconformist TV from the archives of The Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. Being made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the two cases represent an alternative history of broadcast television in the Netherlands. Whereas Neo...

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Main Authors: Slootweg, Tom, Aasman, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision 2015-09-01
Series:VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
Online Access:https://www.viewjournal.eu/article/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc079/
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spelling doaj-edcece5f280241b8aa0bedc1f59d49b62020-11-25T03:00:40ZengNetherlands Institute for Sound and VisionVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture2213-09692015-09-01472110.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc079Democratic Television in The NetherlandsSlootweg, TomAasman, Susan For this article, the authors retrieved two curious cases of nonconformist TV from the archives of The Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. Being made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the two cases represent an alternative history of broadcast television in the Netherlands. Whereas Neon (1979-1980) aimed to establish a punk-inspired DIY video culture, Ed van der Elsken (1980, 1981) strived for an expressive amateur film culture. The authors propose to regarded these cases as two different experiments of participation in and through media. By conceptualising amateur film and video as counter-technologies, the discursive expectations around their democratic potential can be explored further.https://www.viewjournal.eu/article/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc079/
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description For this article, the authors retrieved two curious cases of nonconformist TV from the archives of The Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. Being made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the two cases represent an alternative history of broadcast television in the Netherlands. Whereas Neon (1979-1980) aimed to establish a punk-inspired DIY video culture, Ed van der Elsken (1980, 1981) strived for an expressive amateur film culture. The authors propose to regarded these cases as two different experiments of participation in and through media. By conceptualising amateur film and video as counter-technologies, the discursive expectations around their democratic potential can be explored further.
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