Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture

by Charles R. Acland

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In Screen Traffic , Charles R. Acland examines how, since the mid-1980s, the U.S. commercial movie business has altered conceptions of moviegoing both within the industry and among audiences. He shows how studios, in their increasing reliance on revenues from international audiences and from the ancillary markets of television, videotape, DVD, and pay-per-view, have cultivated an understanding of their commodities as mutating global products. Consequently,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822331632

ISBN13:9780822331636

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.7" x 8.5"

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Communication & Media Studies Cultural Social Science Social Sciences

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