Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store
Excellent companion piece to Joshua Greenberg's From BetaMax to Blockbuster. Herbert looks at...
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 stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie culture’s historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design...
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Excellent companion piece to Joshua Greenberg's From BetaMax to Blockbuster. Herbert looks at the social aspect of video store culture and how home video re-defined what cinema meant to most Americans. Rather than decree the death of video store culture, Herbert leaves its ultimate fate open-ended, providing opportunities for further... Bkin er lng og tarleg sem er kostur og galli. eir sem vilja skkva sr efni me v a lesa eina bk ttu endilega a lesa essa. a er galli a hn sekkur stundum frilega, og jafnvel pm, orru sem er hlfreytandi og jafnvel lsilegt fyrir sem ekki hafa reynslu af slku. En flestir slkir kaflar eru stuttir og a m hlaupa yfir ef maur nennir eim ekki....
