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Broadcasting --- DVDs --- Television broadcasting --- Digital versatile discs --- DVD technology --- Optical disks --- Telecommunication technology --- Business management --- Mass communications --- Computer. Automation --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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Broadcasting --- Television broadcasting --- DVDs --- Broadcasting. --- DVDs. --- Television broadcasting. --- Digital versatile discs --- DVD technology --- Optical disks --- Telecommunication technology --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Production management --- Computer. Automation --- Arts and Humanities --- Engineering --- Telecommunications Technology --- Literature --- Electronics --- Communication Networks & Technology --- General and Others --- Wireless Communications
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Were brutal American horror movies like the Saw and Hostel films a reaction to the trauma of 9/11? Were they a reflection of 'War on Terror'-era America? Or was something else responsible for the rise of these violent and gory films during the first decade of the twenty-first century? Selling the Splat Pack unravels the history of how the emergence of the DVD market changed cultural and industrial attitudes about horror movies and film ratings. These changes made way for increasingly violent horror films, like those produced by the 'Splat Pack', a group of filmmakers who were heralded in the press as subversive outsiders. Taking a different tack, Mark Bernard proposes that the films of the Splat Pack were products of, rather than reactions against, film industry policy. This book includes an overview of the history of the American horror film from an industry studies perspective, an analysis of how the DVD market influenced the production of American horror films, and an examination of films from Splat Pack members such as Eli Roth, Rob Zombie, James Wan, and Alexandre Aja. By re-examining the history of the American horror film from a business perspective and exploring how DVD influenced the production of American horror films in the early twenty-first century, this thought-provoking book provides students and scholars in Film Studies with an alternative perspective on the Splat Pack."
Film --- United States --- Horror films --- Motion picture industry --- DVD-Video discs --- Spookfests (Motion pictures) --- Motion pictures --- Haunted house films --- Monster films --- Digital video discs --- Digital videodiscs --- DVD videodiscs --- DVDs --- Videodiscs --- History and criticism. --- Economic aspects --- Production and direction --- Splatter films --- DVDs. --- History. --- Digital versatile discs --- DVD technology --- Optical disks --- Gore films --- Spatter films --- Splatter horror films --- Splatter movies --- Torture porn films --- United States of America
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This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media. Physical releases such as special editions, DVD box-sets and Blu-Rays are frequently promoted and sought out by consumers. And that past formats such as VHS, Laserdisc and HD-DVD make for sought-after collectible items. These trends are also found within particular genres and niche categories, such as documentary, education and independent film distribution. Through its case studies, this collection makes a distinctive and significant intervention in highlighting the ways in which the film industry has responded to rapidly changing markets. This volume, global in scope, will prove useful to those studying the distribution and exhibition of films, and the economics of the film industry around the world.
Digital video. --- DVDs --- Blu-ray discs. --- Social aspects. --- BDs (Blu-ray discs) --- Discs, Blu-ray --- Optical disks --- Digital versatile discs --- DVD technology --- Digital motion video --- PC video --- Video, Digital --- Computer graphics --- Digital media --- Image processing --- Multimedia systems --- Digital techniques --- Motion pictures and television. --- Culture. --- Technology. --- Communication. --- Digital media. --- Screen Studies. --- Culture and Technology. --- Media and Communication. --- Digital/New Media. --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Moving-pictures and television --- Television and motion pictures --- Television --- Social aspects
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