288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television. In Video Playtime Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these entertainment facilities were used within their households, and what kinds of programmes and films they... Read more
Introduction 1 Questions of method 2 Organization of spare time 3 Viewing contexts and related texts 4 Viewing and reading preferences 5 Technology in the domestic environment 6 The VCR: time-shift 7 The VCR: hiring tapes 8 Gender and class in the household Appendix: sample details by socio-economic category
Biography
Ann Gray is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. She has published related articles in a number of journals including Screen and Marxism Today, and has contributed to Boxed In: Women and Television (1987), edited by Helen Baehr and Gillian Dyer.
