Beyond the Multiplex

Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home

By: Barbara Klinger

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Paperback | 13 March 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media--from cable television and VHS to DVD and the Internet--shape our encounters with the movies and affect the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological definitions of cinema. Barbara Klinger explores topics such as home theater, film collecting, classic Hollywood movie reruns, repeat viewings, and Internet film parodies, providing a multifaceted view of the presentation and reception of films in U.S. households. Balancing industry history with theoretical and cultural analysis, she finds that today cinema's powerful social presence cannot be fully grasped without considering its prolific recycling in post-theatrical venues--especially the home.

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"Beyond the Multiplex is a well-organized, even-keeled, and lucid account of the home as an exhibition space that encourages particular film cultures, each of which contributes to and activates differently the meaning of film texts." -- Paul Monticone Canadian Journal Of Film Stds

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Cinema Today?
The New Media Aristocrats: Home Theater and the Film Experience
The Contemporary Cinephile: Film Collecting After the VCR
Remembrance of Films Past: Cable Television and Classic Hollywood Cinema
Once Is Not Enough: The Functions and Pleasures of Repeat Viewings
To Infinity and Beyond: The Web Short, Parody, and Remediation
Conclusion: Of Fortresses and Film Cultures
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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Beyond the Multiplex

Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home

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