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  • 7 - A New Form of Self-Expression

  • Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan
  • Book:
    The Other Divide
    Published online:
    19 January 2022
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 167-202

  • Summary

    In Back to the Future, one of the few things that Marty McFly takes with him from 1985 to 1955 is a camcorder. Marveling over the video camera, Doc Brown exclaims, “This is truly amazing; a portable television studio. No wonder your president has to be an actor.” The camcorder is an amazing invention, but it is a limited one. Although it has one aspect of a television studio, it lacks its most important component: a true broadcasting antenna. Only people who are physically in the same area as the camcorder can see the recording.