Veni, vidi, video
Subtitle: the Hollywood empire and the VCR
By: Frederick Wasser.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Texas film and media studies series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Video recordings.; Video recordings industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix; title: Signs of the Time; title: The American Film Industry before Video 5; title: The American Film Industry and Video lo; title: The Political Economy of Distribution 14; title: Video and the Audience 17; title: Structure of the Study 18; title: 23 Film Distribution and Home Viewing before the VCR; title: A Brief Review of the Early Days of the Movie Industry 24; title: From Universal Audiences to Feature-Length Films 26; title: Movies at Home 28; title: Tiered Releasing 29; title: Broadcasting: The Other Entertainment Medium 31; title: Postwar Film Exhibition 36; title: Distributing Films to Smaller Audiences 39; title: Television Advertising and Jaws: Marketing the Shark Wide; title: and Deep 44; title: 48 The Development of Video Recording; title: Broadcast Networks and Recording Technology 51; title: Television and Recording 55; title: Home Video 1: Playback-only Systems 60; title: Home Video 2: Japanese Recorder System Development 70; title: 76 Home Video:The Early Years; title: Choice, "Harried" Leisure, and New Technologies 77; title: The Emergence of Cable 81; title: The Universal Lawsuit 82; title: VCR and Subversion 91; title: X-rated Cassettes 92; title: The Majors Start Video Distribution 95; title: Videotape Pricing 95; title: Renting 98; title: 104 The Years of Independence: 1981-1986; title: Independence on the Cusp of Video 105; title: New Companies Get into Video Business 106; title: Hollywood Tries to Control Rentals no; title: Video, Theater, and Cable 116; title: Pre-Selling/Pre-Buying 121; title: Video and New Genres 125; title: Vestron's Video Publishing 127; title: Conclusion 129; title: 131 Video Becomes Big Business; title: The Development of Two-Tiered Pricing 132; title: The New Movie Theater 135; title: Microeconomics i: Overview 138; title: Microeconomics 2: Rental 141; title: Video and Other Commodities 145; title: Retailing Consolidation 146; title: Breadth versus Depth 149; title: Video Advertising 151; title: Video and Revenue Streams 152; title: Production Increase 154; title: More Money, Same Product 154; title: 158 Consolidation and Shakeouts; title: High Concept 161; title: Disney Comes Back On-line 162; title: The Majors Hold the Line on Production Expansion 165; title: Vestron Responds 171; title: The Fate of Pre-Selling and the Mini-Majors 176; title: LIVE, Miramax, and New Line 180; title: Conclusion 183; title: 185 The Lessons of the Video Revolution; title: Media Industries after the VCR 185; title: Home Video and Changes in the Form of Film 194; title: Images of Audience Time 200; title: A Philosophic View of Film and Audience 202; title: Whither the Mass Audience? 204; title: Notes 207; title: Bibliography 227; title: Index 237.