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Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR Paperback - 2002

by Frederick Wasser


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A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many people's first stop is now the neighborhood video store. Indeed, video rentals and sales today generate more income than either theatrical releases or television reruns of movies.

This pathfinding book chronicles the rise of home video as a mass medium and the sweeping changes it has caused throughout the film industry since the mid-1970s. Frederick Wasser discusses Hollywood's initial hostility to home video, which studio heads feared would lead to piracy and declining revenues, and shows how, paradoxically, video revitalized the film industry with huge infusions of cash that financed blockbuster movies and massive marketing campaigns to promote them. He also tracks the fallout from the video revolution in everything from changes in film production values to accommodate the small screen to the rise of media conglomerates and the loss of the diversity once provided by smaller studios and independent distributors.

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  • Title Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
  • Author Frederick Wasser
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Paperback Ed
  • Pages 270
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, AUSTIN, TX
  • Date 2002-01-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780292791466 / 0292791461
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6 x 0.65 in (22.76 x 15.24 x 1.65 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Video recordings, Video recordings industry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001027585
  • Dewey Decimal Code 384.558

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  • Choice, 06/01/2002, Page 1779
  • Library Journal, 02/15/2002, Page 148
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