Videoland: Movie Culture and the American Video Store

by Daniel Herbert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520279638
• ISBN13: 9780520279636
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"