Beyond the multiplex : cinema, new technologies, and the home /

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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 tele...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Klinger, Barbara
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Ausgabe:
Reprint 2019
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (323 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781423755487
1423755480
9780520939073
0520939077
9781598759181
1598759183
Schlagworte:
Home theaters.
Motion pictures and television.
Television > Social aspects.
Television > Technological innovations.
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