The DVD Revolution: Movies, Culture, and Technology

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The introduction of the DVD marked the beginning of one of history's most successful technological innovations, and capped a 75-year development of home-viewing possibilities. Never before have film fans had access in their living rooms to something so remarkably close to the theatrical experience. In addition, because a DVD can hold much more than a single movie, it has allowed films to be marketed with a variety of extras, sparking both a new packaging industry and greater interest on the part of home viewers. This book provides an examination of the DVD's impact, both on home viewing and on film study. From film fan culture through filmmaker commentaries, from special editions to a look at where the format will go from here, author Aaron Barlow offers the first-ever exploration of this explosive new entertainment phenomenon.

As the DVD becomes the popular vehicle of record for films, it is also becoming a unique and unprecedented way for the interested viewer to learn more about filmmaking than has ever been possible before. Because of its ability to reproduce the dimensions and quality of the celluloid image, film fans and scholars can have practically perfect reproductions of classic and contemporary films at their disposal. Not only will this book be of interest to the burgeoning population of DVD fans and collectors, but it will provide insights that should be of interest to both students of popular culture and of film.

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I do not expect that every reader will find every chapter of interest . So , given that there is no inalterable progression through them , I encourage readers to start where they will , taking what they want and moving on to their own ...
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Chapter 1 HOME VIEWING OF FEATURE FILMS IN AMERICA Maybe it was America's passion for movies that killed the Betamax . Sony's home video system played one - hour tapes that just weren't long enough for feature films .
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HOME VIEWING OF FEATURE FILMS IN AMERICA
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CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE AT OUR HOUSE
29
DVD FAN CULTURE
55
THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD
75
THE DVD AUDIO COMMENTARY
109
THE DVD THE FILM SCHOLAR AND THE CLASSROOM
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THE QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP
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AFTERWORD
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NOTES
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Página 6 - We know that the spectator finds it impossible to notice that the images which succeed one another before his eyes were assembled end-to-end, because the projection of film on the screen offers an impression of continuity although the images which compose it are, in reality, distinct, and are differentiated moreover by variations in space and time. "In a film, there can be hundreds, even thousands of cuts and intervals. But if...
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Página 33 - We didn't need dialogue — we had faces! There aren't any faces anymore . . . there was a time when they had the eyes of the whole world; but that wasn't good enough for them. Oh, no! They had to have the ears of the world, too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk, talk, talk.
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Página vi - ... was defined by given possibilities, but the creation of a medium by their giving significance to specific possibilities. Only the art itself can discover its possibilities, and the discovery of a new possibility is the discovery of a new medium. A medium is something through which or by means of which something specific gets done or said in particular ways.
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Página 35 - HENRI LANGLOIS for his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving its past and his unswerving faith in its future. GROUCHO MARX in recognition of his brilliant creativity and for the unequalled achievements of the Marx Brothers in the art of motion picture comedy.
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Página vi - Any account of the cinema that was drawn merely from the technical inventions that made it possible would be a poor one indeed. On the contrary, an approximate and complicated visualization of an idea invariably precedes the industrial discovery which alone can open the way to its practical use.
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Página 39 - But my claim is that in the case of films, it is generally true that you do not really like the highest instances unless you also like typical ones. You don't even know what the highest are instances of unless you know the typical as well.
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Página 87 - ... studies, its practitioners include Brummett, Nichols, and Robert Stam (Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard, 1985; Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film, 1989). As cultural expression, films reveal not only the predispositions of filmmakers but they also serve ideological functions in the broader culture (as critique, as hegemonic force, as symptomatic) that can be analyzed as having a rhetorical function, especially to the extent that...
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Página 33 - I seen you — ? NORMA. Or shall I call my servant? GILLIS. I know your face. You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in pictures. You used to be big. NORMA. I am big. It's the pictures that got small. GILLIS. I knew there was something wrong with them. NORMA. They're dead. They're finished. There was a time when this business had the eyes of the whole wide world. But that wasn't good enough. Oh, no! They wanted the ears of the world, too. So they opened their big mouths, and out came talk, talk, talk...
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Página 65 - I fij-M hurl t" moyjss, even if I can no longer share them. The events associated with the experiences of books and music are only occasionally as important as the experience of the works themselves. The events associated with movies are those of companionship or lack of companionship: the audience of a book is essentially solitary, one soul at a time; the audience of music and theater is essentially larger than your immediate acquaintance — a gathering of the city; the crowd at a movie comprises...
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AARON BARLOW teaches early American literature at Kutztown University. He has previously taught film studies at the Pratt Institute in New York City, and has written extensively on science fiction cinema.

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TítuloThe DVD Revolution: Movies, Culture, and Technology
AutorAaron Barlow
EditorGreenwood Publishing Group, 2005
ISBN0275983870, 9780275983871
Largo179 páginas
  
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