The DVD Revolution: Movies, Culture, and TechnologyBloomsbury Publishing USA, 2004 M12 30 - 200 páginas 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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... possible to watch a movie at home confident you are seeing an authoritative version , just as you are when you read a quality edition of a novel . Today's best film DVDs certainly aren't merely videotapes in another medium . Some are ...
... possible to watch a movie at home confident you are seeing an authoritative version , just as you are when you read a quality edition of a novel . Today's best film DVDs certainly aren't merely videotapes in another medium . Some are ...
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... possible . Many of the films that are appearing in new DVD editions developed their followings as videotapes . Some of them were certainly blockbusters in the theater , but others were not . They have coalesced into a body of films that ...
... possible . Many of the films that are appearing in new DVD editions developed their followings as videotapes . Some of them were certainly blockbusters in the theater , but others were not . They have coalesced into a body of films that ...
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... possible — sometimes the best isn't very good , but it might be all we have available so we should avail ourselves of the value that it does have . Despite the fears of film purists — and they are real ( for example , we may be losing ...
... possible — sometimes the best isn't very good , but it might be all we have available so we should avail ourselves of the value that it does have . Despite the fears of film purists — and they are real ( for example , we may be losing ...
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... possible in America long before VHS and Betamax battled it out , even before television burst upon American culture in the late 1940s . Home viewing goes at least as far back as 1923 when Kodak introduced its 16mm Kodascope projector ...
... possible in America long before VHS and Betamax battled it out , even before television burst upon American culture in the late 1940s . Home viewing goes at least as far back as 1923 when Kodak introduced its 16mm Kodascope projector ...
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... possible for the well - to - do to set up a home - viewing apparatus . Kodak marketed the Kodascope with the Cine - Kodak Motion Picture Camera , and the system proved immediately successful for taking and showing amateur movies . The ...
... possible for the well - to - do to set up a home - viewing apparatus . Kodak marketed the Kodascope with the Cine - Kodak Motion Picture Camera , and the system proved immediately successful for taking and showing amateur movies . The ...
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2 CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE AT OUR HOUSE | 29 |
3 DVD FAN CULTURE | 55 |
4 THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD | 75 |
5 THE DVD AUDIO COMMENTARY | 109 |
6 THE DVD THE FILM SCHOLAR AND THE CLASSROOM | 127 |
7 THE QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP | 143 |
AFTERWORD | 157 |
NOTES | 161 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 167 |
INDEX | 171 |
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