9780520279636-0520279638-Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store

Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store

ISBN-13: 9780520279636
ISBN-10: 0520279638
Edition: First Edition
Author: Daniel Herbert
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520279636
ISBN-10: 0520279638
Edition: First Edition
Author: Daniel Herbert
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages

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Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (ISBN-13: 9780520279636 and ISBN-10: 0520279638), written by authors Daniel Herbert, was published by University of California Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $8.83.

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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 of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.
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