Description: Further DetailsTitle: VideolandCondition: NewSubtitle: Movie Culture at the American Video StoreISBN-10: 0520279611EAN: 9780520279612ISBN: 9780520279612Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/24/2014Description: Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie culture's historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture.Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 590gAuthor: Daniel HerbertGenre: Films & TVTopic: Arts & PhotographyRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Videoland
Title: Videoland
Subtitle: Movie Culture at the American Video Store
ISBN-10: 0520279611
EAN: 9780520279612
ISBN: 9780520279612
Release Date: 01/24/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Videoland : Movie Culture at the American Video Store
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2014
Topic: Film / General, Industries / Service, Industries / Retailing, United States / 20th Century, Digital
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Performing Arts, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Author: Daniel Herbert
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover