TY - BOOK ID - 8528353 TI - Videoland : movie culture at the American video store PY - 2014 SN - 9780520279612 0520279611 9780520279636 0520279638 1306291399 0520958020 9780520958029 9781306291392 PB - Berkeley, California : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Video rental services KW - Video recordings industry KW - Motion pictures KW - Stores, Retail KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Civilization KW - Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States. KW - Stores, Retail -- Social aspects -- United States. KW - Video recordings industry -- Social aspects -- United States. KW - Video rental services -- Social aspects -- United States. KW - Business & Economics KW - Industries KW - Retail stores KW - Shops KW - Video industry KW - Video tape production industry KW - Commercial buildings KW - Retail trade KW - Shopping centers KW - Lease and rental services KW - Motion picture industry KW - E-books KW - Sociology of culture KW - Public buildings KW - Film KW - anno 1980-1989 KW - anno 1990-1999 KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - american history. KW - american studies. KW - architectural design. KW - archival research. KW - capitalism. KW - commercialization. KW - consumer culture. KW - consumer video. KW - cultural geography. KW - cultural studies. KW - ethnographic fieldwork. KW - film. KW - increased flexibility. KW - magnetic tapes. KW - material commodities. KW - media history. KW - motion pictures. KW - movie culture. KW - public retail space. KW - rental industry. KW - retrospective. KW - social dynamics. KW - social space. KW - tangible phase. KW - united states of america. KW - video distribution industry. KW - video recommendation guides. KW - video rental stores. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8528353 AB - 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 1980's until the early 2000's, 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 out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie culture's historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history. ER -