1st Edition

Film and Television After DVD

Edited By James Bennett, Tom Brown Copyright 2008
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" ( The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest selling item in history of US consumer electronics market" (McDonald 2007: 135). This book examines the phenomenal growth of DVDs in relation to the cultures, economies, texts, audiences and histories... Read more

Introduction

James Bennett (London Metropolitan University) & Tom Brown (University of Warwick)

1. DVD and home film cultures

Professor Barbara Klinger (Indiana University)

2. Representing DVD as new technology

Professor William Boddy (City Univerity of New York)

3. Seriality, Flow and televisual form: Television in DVD time

James Bennett (London Metropolitan University)

4. A taste for leeches: DVDs, cultural hierarchies and queer consumption

Glyn Davis (University of Bristol)

5. DVD of Attractions? The Lion King and the digital theme park

Tom Brown (University of Warwick)

6. Re-Directing films: Authorship and the DVD

Catherine Grant (University of Kent)

7. The purpose and practice of academic DVD commentaries

In conversation with Professor Ginette Vincendeau (Kings College, London) & Caroline Millar (British Film Institute)

8. DVDs and the political economy of attention

Jo T Smith (University of Auckland)

9. Prefiguring DVD bonus tracks: Making-ofs and behind-the-scenes as historic television programming strategies

John T. Caldwell (UCLA)

Notes

Bibliography

Index

 

Biography

James Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at London Metropolitan University. His work is primarily concerned with digital television and television stardom. It has appeared in New Review of Film & Television Studies, Multimedia Histories, Studies in Australasian Cinema, Screen, Convergence and Media International Australia (with Niki Strange).

Tom Brown is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading. His research is focused primarily on the analysis of the relationship between film style and technology, the role of spectacle in French and American "classical" film, and the history of "direct address" in the cinema.