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1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Video Rental and the ""Shopping"" of Media; PART I. THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF VIDEO RENTAL; 1. A Long Tale; 2. Practical Classifications; PART II. VIDEO STORES AND THE LOCALIZATION OF MOVIE CULTURE; 3. Video Capitals; 4. Video Rental in Small-Town America; PART III. CIRCULATIONS OF VIDEO STORE CULTURE; 5. Distributing Value; 6. Mediating Choice: Criticism, Advice, Metadata; Coda: The Value of the Tangible; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U. |
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| Summary |
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 sto. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Video rental services -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Video rental services. |
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Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Video recordings industry -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Video recordings industry. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Stores, Retail -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Stores, Retail -- Social aspects. |
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Stores, Retail. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
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Civilization. |
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1970- |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Movie culture at the American video store |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Herbert, Daniel, 1974- Videoland. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] 9780520279612 (DLC) 2013033770 (OCoLC)857370295 |
| ISBN |
9780520958029 (electronic book) |
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0520958020 (electronic book) |
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9781306291392 (electronic book) |
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1306291399 (electronic book) |
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9780520279612 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520279611 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520279636 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520279638 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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