Flexible home entertainment: Hollywood's response to home video

This dissertation in the field of film studies, communications studies and new media raises important issues about the relationship between corporate strategies and the convergence of media. A history of home video distribution, it covers the relationship between film distribution and home entertainment: at the turn of the century, during the development of television, and in the current era of flexible home entertainment. Home video was introduced as a new consumer technology in the 1970s. Consumers adopted it in order to enhance their flexibility over leisure time. However, the primary distributors of filmed entertainment products, the Hollywood studios, were slow to develop strategies for the emerging market in pre-recorded cassettes. New, independent distributors, such as Vestron Video, flourished for a few years, going out of business as Hollywood adapted.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Wasser, Frederick Anthony

Contributors dc:contributor

• Guback, Thomas

• Mass Communications
• Cinema
• American Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Wasser, Frederick Anthony

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591199598
AAI9712477
(UMI)AAI9712477

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21543