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Veni, Vidi, Video : The Hollywood Empire and the VCR /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press,
2001.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix
- Signs of the Time
- The American Film Industry before Video 5
- The American Film Industry and Video lo
- The Political Economy of Distribution 14
- Video and the Audience 17
- Structure of the Study 18
- 23 Film Distribution and Home Viewing before the VCR
- A Brief Review of the Early Days of the Movie Industry 24
- From Universal Audiences to Feature-Length Films 26
- Movies at Home 28
- Tiered Releasing 29
- Broadcasting: The Other Entertainment Medium 31
- Postwar Film Exhibition 36
- Distributing Films to Smaller Audiences 39
- Television Advertising and Jaws: Marketing the Shark Wide
- and Deep 44
- 48 The Development of Video Recording
- Broadcast Networks and Recording Technology 51
- Television and Recording 55
- Home Video 1: Playback-only Systems 60
- Home Video 2: Japanese Recorder System Development 70
- 76 Home Video:The Early Years
- Choice, "Harried" Leisure, and New Technologies 77
- The Emergence of Cable 81
- The Universal Lawsuit 82
- VCR and Subversion 91
- X-rated Cassettes 92
- The Majors Start Video Distribution 95
- Videotape Pricing 95
- Renting 98
- 104 The Years of Independence: 1981-1986
- Independence on the Cusp of Video 105
- New Companies Get into Video Business 106
- Hollywood Tries to Control Rentals no
- Video, Theater, and Cable 116
- Pre-Selling/Pre-Buying 121
- Video and New Genres 125
- Vestron's Video Publishing 127
- Conclusion 129
- 131 Video Becomes Big Business
- The Development of Two-Tiered Pricing 132
- The New Movie Theater 135
- Microeconomics i: Overview 138
- Microeconomics 2: Rental 141
- Video and Other Commodities 145
- Retailing Consolidation 146
- Breadth versus Depth 149
- Video Advertising 151
- Video and Revenue Streams 152
- Production Increase 154
- More Money, Same Product 154
- 158 Consolidation and Shakeouts
- High Concept 161
- Disney Comes Back On-line 162
- The Majors Hold the Line on Production Expansion 165
- Vestron Responds 171
- The Fate of Pre-Selling and the Mini-Majors 176
- LIVE, Miramax, and New Line 180
- Conclusion 183
- 185 The Lessons of the Video Revolution
- Media Industries after the VCR 185
- Home Video and Changes in the Form of Film 194
- Images of Audience Time 200
- A Philosophic View of Film and Audience 202
- Whither the Mass Audience? 204
- Notes 207
- Bibliography 227
- Index 237.