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Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home »

Authors: Barbara Klinger
ISBN-13: 9780520223158, ISBN-10: 0520223152
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Barbara Klinger

Barbara Klinger, Associate Professor of Communication and Culture and Director of Film and Media at
Indiana University, is author of Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk (1994).

Book Synopsis

"Barbara Klinger provides a detailed and insightful glimpse into the major place we watch movies today: the home! Connecting discourses, technologies, and consumer behavior, she writes a superb examination of the places, means, and drive for personal control of our visual and aural pleasures, changing our gaze from the multiplex screen to our own living spaces. A crucial contribution to contemporary studies in film, television, and new media! "—Janet Staiger, author of Media Reception Studies

	Introduction : what is cinema today?	1
1	The new media aristocrats : home theater and the film experience	17
2	The contemporary cinephile : film collecting after the VCR	54
3	Remembrance of films past : cable television and classic Hollywood cinema	91
4	Once is not enough : the functions and pleasures of repeat viewings	135
5	To infinity and beyond : the Web short, parody, and remediation	191
	Conclusion : of fortresses and film cultures	239