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Cinema beyond territory : inflight entertainment and atmospheres of globalisation /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London :
British Film Institute,
2019.
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| Colección: | Cultural Histories of Cinema Ser.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Inflight entertainment and cosmopolitanism
- Inflight entertainment as transmedia
- Organisation and method
- Inflight entertainment as globalisation
- Geographies
- 1. Global Airspace, Global Cinemaspace
- New categories of space and sovereignty
- The international framework for inflight film
- Globalisation as flow
- Conclusion: air world
- 2. Aerial Perceptions: The Visuality of the Airplane
- From tours to pre-tours
- Flag carriers and national cinemas
- The aerial view
- The global cinematic
- Technologies
- 3. Airborne Cinema: The Emergence of Inflight Entertainment
- 'Movies! 8,000 feet over the Atlantic'
- 'Our customers like movies, we like movies and we intend to keep them'
- Competing screen sizes
- The sound of inflight entertainment
- Conclusion: 'A necessary evil'
- 4. Executive Flight: Attention, Gender and the Seatback Screen
- Global attention economy
- Productive empty time
- 'Let us entertain you'
- Censorship and the contested space of the cabin
- Conclusion
- 5. Networked Transport: Neoliberalism and Digital Entertainments
- A brief history of inflight telephony
- Digital neoliberalism
- Flying the web
- Virtual weight
- Crises
- 6. Disastrous Speed: Thrill Rides, Screens and Fear of Flying
- The logic of speed
- Screen reassurance and safety announcements
- The latent danger of inflight entertainment
- Astrovision: American Airlines' thrill ride
- The terminal citizen
- 7. Live in Air: Aerial Circuits of Television
- Routine emergencies of television
- Conclusion: Cinema as Infrastructure
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- eCopyright