Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 316 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520279611
,
0520279638
,
0520958020
,
1306291399
,
9780520279612
,
9780520279636
,
9780520958029
,
9781306291392
Content:
Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the ""tangible phase"" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video sto
Content:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Video Rental and the ""Shopping"" of Media; PART I. THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF VIDEO RENTAL; 1. A Long Tale; 2. Practical Classifications; PART II. VIDEO STORES AND THE LOCALIZATION OF MOVIE CULTURE; 3. Video Capitals; 4. Video Rental in Small-Town America; PART III. CIRCULATIONS OF VIDEO STORE CULTURE; 5. Distributing Value; 6. Mediating Choice: Criticism, Advice, Metadata; Coda: The Value of the Tangible; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U
Content:
VW; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Print version Herbert, Daniel, 1974- Videoland Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Language:
English
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