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Veni, vidi, video : the Hollywood empire and the VCR /
A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many people's first stop is now the neighborhood video store. Indeed, video rentals and sales today genera...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2001.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Texas film and media studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : signs of the time
- The American film industry before video
- The American film industry and video
- The political economy of distribution
- Video and the audience
- Structure of the study
- pt. 1. Film distribution and home viewing before the VCR
- From universal audiences to feature-length films
- Movies at home
- Tiered releasing
- Broadcasting : the other entertainment medium
- Postwar film exhibition
- Distributing films to smaller audiences
- Television advertising and Jaws : marketing the shark wide and deep
- ch. 2. The development of video recording
- Broadcast networks and recording technology
- Television and recording
- Home video 1 : playback-only systems
- Home video 2 : Japanese recorder system development
- ch. 3. Home video : the early years
- Choice, "harried" leisure, and new technologies
- The emergence of cable
- The universal lawsuit
- VCR and subversion
- X-rated cassettes
- The majors start video distribution
- Videotape pricing
- ch. 4. The years of independence : 1981-1986
- Independence on the cusp of video
- New companies get into video business
- Hollywood tries to control rentals
- Video, theater, and cable
- Pre-selling/pre-buying
- Video and new genres
- Vestron's video publishing
- Conclusion
- ch. 5. Video becomes big business
- The development of two-tiered pricing
- The new movie theater
- Microeconomics 1 : overview
- Microeconomics 2 : rental
- Video and other commodities
- Retailing consolidation
- Breadth versus depth
- Video advertising
- Video and revenue streams
- Production increase
- More money, same product
- ch. 6. Consolidation and shakeouts
- High concept
- Disney comes back on-line
- The majors hold the line on production expansion
- Vestron responds
- The fate of pre-selling and the mini-majors
- LIVE, Miramax, and New Line
- Conclusion
- ch. 7. The lessons of the video revolution
- Media industries after the VCR
- Home video and changes in the form of film
- Images of audience time
- A philosophic view of film and audience
- Whither the mass audience?