** Apologies for cross posting **
We would like to announce the publication of Film & Television After DVD
(Routledge), which may be of interest to any one teaching/researching film,
television and their relationship to digital media. To order a copy (library
hardcopy edition) please click the link below.
http://www.routledge.com/books/Film-and-Television-After-DVD-isbn9780415962414
Further details below.
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 of film, television and new media.
Film and Television After DVD brings together a group of
internationally renowned scholars to provide the first focused
academic inquiry into this important technology.
The book picks up on key issues within contemporary media studies, making a
particularly significant contribution to debates about convergence and
interactivity in the digital media landscape. Essays consider DVD as a
technology that exists outside the boundaries of “new” and “old”
media, examining its place within longer histories of home film
cultures and production practices of the film and television
industries, whilst also critically evaluating what is genuinely “new”
about digital media technologies. From DVDs to downloading,
peer-to-peer networking and HD-DVD, this book speaks of the
rapidly evolving digital mediascape. Ultimately, Film and Television After
DVD is a book that considers the convergence of film, television
and new media and their academic disciplines through the DVD as a
distinct cultural object, pointing to persistent questions in the study of
audiovisual culture that will remain intriguing long after the shelf-life
of the DVD itself.
Table of contents:
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)
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