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The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals : Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet /

Paul Young looks at the American cinema's imaginative constructions of three electronic mediaradio, television, and the Internetat the times when these media seemed to hold limitless possibilities. The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals demonstrates that Hollywood is marked by the advent of each new medi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Paul, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Paul Young looks at the American cinema's imaginative constructions of three electronic mediaradio, television, and the Internetat the times when these media seemed to hold limitless possibilities. The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals demonstrates that Hollywood is marked by the advent of each new medium, but conversely, the identities of the media are themselves changed as Hollywood turns them to its own purposes.
Item Description:"Chapter 5 first appeared in a slightly different and shorter form as 'The Negative Reinvention of Cinema: Late Hollywood in the Early Digital Age, ' Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 5, no. 2 (1999): 24-50, guest edited by Ross Harley. Reprinted with permission"--Title page verso
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9780816691685