Gene Youngblood 2006 An Interview (2014)

In this interview communications theorist Gene Youngblood b 1942 maps out the various stages of the development of video technology and its philosophical implications for human interaction The range of topics discussed moves beyond video to offer an extensive and rich survey of American culture from the 1960s to the present moment In addition to discussing his canonical text Expanded Cinema Youngblood shares stories from his early days as a police reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner where he gained intimate knowledge of the medias politics of representation With the acuity of hindsight Youngblood discusses important selfdiscoveries and his lifechanging decision to move from the mainstream media into the world of the underground press