Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright

• Lucas Hilderbrand
• Duke UP, 2009
• Paperback, 320 pages
• 9780822343769

"Inherent Vice" does more than anything else I've read to bring together aesthetic analysis and intellectual property studies. It offers a beautifully conceived historical study of the 'medium specificity' of videotape and an eloquent defense of video in a world populated by film aesthetes and digital utopians. I learned a lot from this book and it helped me to think in new ways about analog media."

--Jonathan Sterne, author of "The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction