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Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store
Daniel Herbert
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Description for Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFKV; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520279636
SKU
V9780520279636
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About Daniel Herbert
Daniel Herbert is Assistant Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
Reviews for Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store
"Herbert effectively traces a genealogy of movies from the strip malls of yesteryear to today's rootless culture of moving-image consumption."
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa Film Comment "Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store is an unusual and often unusually compelling study of the emergence and disappearance of American movie-rental stores."
Clayton Dillard Slant "Videoland...offers an outstanding analysis of film ... Read more
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa Film Comment "Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store is an unusual and often unusually compelling study of the emergence and disappearance of American movie-rental stores."
Clayton Dillard Slant "Videoland...offers an outstanding analysis of film ... Read more