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Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home

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Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media--from cable television and VHS to DVD and the Internet--shape our encounters with the movies and affect the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological definitions of cinema. Barbara Klinger explores topics such as home theater, film collecting, classic Hollywood movie reruns, repeat viewings, and Internet film parodies, providing a multifaceted view of the presentation and reception of films in U.S. households. Balancing industry history with theoretical and cultural analysis, she finds that today cinema's powerful social presence cannot be fully grasped without considering its prolific recycling in post-theatrical venues--especially the home.
Request Code : ZLIBIO576468
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Year:
2006
Edition:
1
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
323
ISBN 10:
0520223152
ISBN 13:
9780520223158
ISBN:
9780520245860,0520245865,0520223152,9780520223158

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