On this episode of Pop Life, Kendall Phillips is joined by Dr. Johnny Walker to discuss the history of the VHS. Johnny Walker is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University in the UK. From 2018 to 2021 he was Programme Leader of the BA Mass Communications framework, for which he won "Programme Leader of Year" at the Student Union Awards 2018-19. As of September 2021, he is the Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded Fellowship: Raising Hell: British Horror Film of the 1980s and 1990s.
Kendall and Johnny discuss how VHS first entered the home media market, how it became the dominant global media option, and the rise of amateur film makers in the 1990s.
This episode was produced with assistance from Jamie Korenblat.
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