Beyond the multiplex : cinema, new technologies, and the home / Barbara Klinger.
"Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media--from cab...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2006]
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| Summary: | "Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media--from cable television and VHS to DVD and the Internet--shape our encounters with the movies and affect the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological definitions of cinema. Barbara Klinger explores topics such as home theater, film collecting, classic Hollywood movie reruns, repeat viewings, and Internet film parodies, providing a multifaceted view of the presentation and reception of films in U.S. households. Balancing industry history with theoretical and cultural analysis, she finds that today cinema's powerful social presence cannot be fully grasped without considering its prolific recycling in post-theatrical venues--especially the home."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520223152 9780520223158 0520245865 9780520245860 |