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Killer tapes and shattered screens : video spectatorship from VHS to file sharing /
Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the structuring discourse of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the structuring discourse of US movie culture. Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens examines how prerecorded video reframes the premises and promises of motion picture spectatorship. But instead of offering a history of video technology or reception, Caetlin Benson-Allott analyzes how the movies themselves understand and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520954491 9780520954496 |