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Beyond the Multiplex
Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home
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Barbara Klinger
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English
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2023
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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.
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 enterta
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 enterta
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Contributor: Barbara Klinger
Barbara Klinger, Associate Professor of Communication and Culture and Director of Film and Media at Indiana University, is author of Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk (1994).
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Introduction:
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1. The New Media Aristocrats:
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2. The Contemporary Cinephile:
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3. Remembrance of Films Past:
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4. Once Is Not Enough:
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5. To Infinity and Beyond:
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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July 6, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780520939073
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Reprint 2019
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324
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9780520939073
Keywords for this book
film studies; entertainment media; media studies; home theaters; cinemaphiles; cinema historians; home viewers; hollywood; america; movie theaters; ethnography; contemporary film; entertainment technology; cable television; vhs; dvd; internet media; cinema aesthetics; movies and culture; ideological perspective; internet films; film parodies; film reception; us households; film industry; theoretical; post theatrical venues; nonfiction; cultural analysis; social presence
