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

Unmarked. Black and white illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 310p.

First full-length study on how emerging entertainment technologies and media (cable television, VHS, DVDs, the Internet) are shaping our encounters with the movies and affect the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological definitions of cinema.

From Publisher:

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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0520245865

ISBN-13: 9780520245860

Publisher: University of California Press

Year: 2006

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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