ISBN:
9780520958029
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0520958020
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9781306291392
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1306291399
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9780520279612
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0520279611
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9780520279636
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0520279638
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Herbert, Daniel, 1974- Videoland
DDC:
302.23/430973
Keywords:
Motion pictures / Social aspects / United States
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Stores, Retail / Social aspects / United States
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Video recordings industry / Social aspects / United States
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Video rental services / Social aspects / United States
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PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
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Film
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Gesellschaft
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Video rental services Social aspects
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Video recordings industry Social aspects
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Motion pictures Social aspects
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Stores, Retail Social aspects
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Videothek
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Geschichte
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Sozialer Wandel
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Technischer Fortschritt
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USA
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USA
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USA
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Videothek
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Technischer Fortschritt
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Sozialer Wandel
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Video Rental and the ""Shopping"" of Media; PART I. THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF VIDEO RENTAL; 1. A Long Tale; 2. Practical Classifications; PART II. VIDEO STORES AND THE LOCALIZATION OF MOVIE CULTURE; 3. Video Capitals; 4. Video Rental in Small-Town America; PART III. CIRCULATIONS OF VIDEO STORE CULTURE; 5. Distributing Value; 6. Mediating Choice: Criticism, Advice, Metadata; Coda: The Value of the Tangible; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U.
Description / Table of Contents:
VW; Z.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 sto
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