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The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals - Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals - Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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By the middle of the twentieth century, Hollywood, formerly the one
and only dream factory, found itself facing a host of media rivals
for the public's attention. In the 1980s, another competitor
arrived in the form of the proto-Internet--a computer network as
yet untested by all but research scientists, college students, the
military, and a few thousand PC and modem owners. How did Hollywood
respond to this nascent challenge? By dreaming about it, in a
series of technological fantasies, from "Tron" to "War Games" to
"Lawnmower Man. The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals "examines the meaning
and effect of the movies' attempts to reshape the shifting media
landscape.
Paul Young looks at the American cinema's imaginative constructions
of three electronic media--radio, television, and the Internet--at
the times when these media seemed to hold limitless possibilities.
In doing so, he demonstrates that Hollywood is indelibly marked by
the advent of each new medium, from the inclusion of sound in
motion pictures to the use of digital graphics. But conversely,
Young argues, the identities of the new media are themselves
changed as Hollywood turns them to its own purposes and its own
dreams.
Paul Young is professor of English and director of the film studies
program at Vanderbilt University.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2006 |
First published: |
March 2006 |
Authors: |
Paul Young
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Dimensions: |
229 x 149 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
360 |
Edition: |
Annotated Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-3599-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8166-3599-4 |
Barcode: |
9780816635993 |
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