Veni, vidi, video : the Hollywood empire and the VCR / Frederick Wasser.
Chronicles the rise of home video as a mass medium and the changes it has caused throughout the film industry since the mid-1970s.
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| Language: | English |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2001.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Texas film and media studies series.
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| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction : signs of the time -- |t The American film industry before video -- |t The American film industry and video -- |t The political economy of distribution -- |t Video and the audience -- |t Structure of the study -- |g pt. 1. |t Film distribution and home viewing before the VCR -- |t From universal audiences to feature-length films -- |t Movies at home -- |t Tiered releasing -- |t Broadcasting : the other entertainment medium -- |t Postwar film exhibition -- |t Distributing films to smaller audiences -- |t Television advertising and Jaws : marketing the shark wide and deep -- |g ch. 2. |t The development of video recording -- |t Broadcast networks and recording technology -- |t Television and recording -- |t Home video 1 : playback-only systems -- |t Home video 2 : Japanese recorder system development -- |g ch. 3. |t Home video : the early years -- |t Choice, "harried" leisure, and new technologies -- |t The emergence of cable -- |t The universal lawsuit -- |t VCR and subversion -- |t X-rated cassettes -- |t The majors start video distribution -- |t Videotape pricing -- |g ch. 4. |t The years of independence : 1981-1986 -- |t Independence on the cusp of video -- |t New companies get into video business -- |t Hollywood tries to control rentals -- |t Video, theater, and cable -- |t Pre-selling/pre-buying -- |t Video and new genres -- |t Vestron's video publishing -- |t Conclusion -- |g ch. 5. |t Video becomes big business -- |t The development of two-tiered pricing -- |t The new movie theater -- |t Microeconomics 1 : overview -- |t Microeconomics 2 : rental -- |t Video and other commodities -- |t Retailing consolidation -- |t Breadth versus depth -- |t Video advertising -- |t Video and revenue streams -- |t Production increase -- |t More money, same product -- |g ch. 6. |t Consolidation and shakeouts -- |t High concept -- |t Disney comes back on-line -- |t The majors hold the line on production expansion -- |t Vestron responds -- |t The fate of pre-selling and the mini-majors -- |t LIVE, Miramax, and New Line -- |t Conclusion -- |g ch. 7. |t The lessons of the video revolution -- |t Media industries after the VCR -- |t Home video and changes in the form of film -- |t Images of audience time -- |t A philosophic view of film and audience -- |t Whither the mass audience? |
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