1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790711103321

Autore

Herbert Daniel <1974->

Titolo

Videoland : movie culture at the American video store / / Daniel Herbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-27963-8

0-520-95802-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/430973

Soggetti

Video rental services - Social aspects - United States

Video recordings industry - Social aspects - United States

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

Stores, Retail - Social aspects - United States

United States Civilization 1970-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Video Rental and the "Shopping" of Media -- 1. A Long Tale -- 2. Practical Classifications -- 3. Video Capitals -- 4. Video Rental in Small-Town America -- 5. Distributing Value -- 6. Mediating Choice: Criticism, Advice, Metadata -- Coda: The Value of the Tangible -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785247703321

Autore

Hamill Heather <1971->

Titolo

The hoods [[electronic resource] ] : crime and punishment in Belfast / / Heather Hamill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-82109-1

9786612821097

1-4008-3673-5

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

364.9416/7

Soggetti

Crime - Northern Ireland - Belfast

Criminals - Northern Ireland - Belfast

Juvenile delinquents - Northern Ireland - Belfast

Punishment - Northern Ireland - Belfast

Paramilitary forces - Northern Ireland - Belfast

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. West Belfast -- Two. The Hoods -- Three. Search for Status -- Four. Signaling Games -- Five. Loyalists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of terms -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries



have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despite the risk of severe punishment, young petty offenders--known locally as "hoods"--continue to offend, creating a puzzle for the rational theory of criminal deterrence. Why do hoods behave in ways that invite violent punishment? In The Hoods, Heather Hamill explains why this informal system of policing and punishment developed and endured and why such harsh punishments as beatings, "kneecappings," and exile have not stopped hoods from offending. Drawing on a variety of sources, including interviews with perpetrators and victims of this violence, the book argues that the hoods' risky offending may amount to a game in which hoods gain prestige by displaying hard-to-fake signals of toughness to each other. Violent physical punishment feeds into this signaling game, increasing the hoods' status by proving that they have committed serious offenses and can "manfully" take punishment yet remained undeterred. A rare combination of frontline research and pioneering ideas, The Hoods has important implications for our fundamental understanding of crime and punishment.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910838267603321

Titolo

Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Anatomical Dissection at a Nineteenth-Century Army Hospital in San Francisco / / edited by P. Willey, Peter Gavette, Eric J. Bartelink, and Colleen F. Milligan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University of Florida Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-68340-362-2

1-68340-348-7

Edizione

[1.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Collana

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives

Classificazione

SOC003000MED039000

Disciplina

611.009794/61

Soggetti

Soldiers - Services for

Human dissection

Hospitals

MEDICAL / History

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology

Soldiers - Services for - California - San Francisco - 19th century

Hospitals - California - San Francisco - History - 19th century

Human dissection - California - San Francisco - History - 19th century

History

California San Francisco

San Francisco (Calif.) History 19th century Hospitals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction, Comparable Skeletal Series, and Organization of Volume / P. Willey, Eric J. Bartelink, Peter Gavette, and Colleen F. Milligan -- Part I. Historical Context -- Historical Background of California and the San Francisco Bay Area / Lisa N. Bright -- Resurrectionists, Criminals, and the Unclaimed: History of Cadavers and the Study of Anatomy in the Nineteenth Century / Colleen F. Milligan -- The Role of US Army Surgeons and Their Contributions to the Army Medical Museum in the Post-Civil War Era (1865-1890) / Brian F. Spatola and Kristen E.



Pearlstein -- A Surgeon among Surgeons: The Medical Staff at Point San Jose / Peter Gavette -- Part II. Archaeology -- Discovery, Excavation, and Context of Materials in the Point San Jose Pit / Peter Gavette and P. Willey -- What Civil War-Era Medicine Bottles Can Reveal about the Point San Jose Pit / Angela Locke Barton -- Faunal Remains: Food Waste and Animal Dissection at Point San Jose / Kasey E. Cole, Kelsie Hart, Cecily Merwin, and Alina Tichinin -- Part III. Human Osteology -- Taphonomy of Human Remains from Point San Jose Hospital, San Francisco / Mallory Peters, Jessica Curry, and Eric J. Bartelink -- Analysis of Commingled Human Remains and Element Representation from the Point San Jose Collection / Maria Cox, Valerie Sgheiza, Samuel A. Mijal, Kristen A. Broehl, Heather MacInnes, and Eric J. Bartelink -- Age, Sex, and Ancestry Estimations of the People from Point San Jose / Valerie Sgheiza and P. Willey -- Point San Jose Statures as Indications of Stress / P. Willey -- Isotopic Perspectives on Residence Patterns at Point San Jose / Eric J. Bartelink and Sarah A. Hall -- Diet Dissected: Isotopic Variation at Point San Jose / Sarah A. Hall, Julia Prince-Buitenhuys, and Eric J. Bartelink -- Paleopathology and Nonspecific Stress Indicators at Point San Jose / Colleen F. Milligan, Kristen A. Broehl, Kelsie Hart, Vanessa C. Reeves, Karin Wells, and Eric J. Bartelink -- Part IV. Conclusions -- Bodies Apart: Structural Violence and Dis/Embodiment at Point San Jose / Sarah A. Hall -- Conclusions and Future Research / Eric J. Bartelink, Peter Gavette, P. Willey, and Colleen F. Milligan.

Sommario/riassunto

"An archaeological site that tells a story of structural violence in medical researchIn 2010, a pit containing over 4,000 human skeletal elements was discovered at the site of the former Army hospital at Point San Jose in San Francisco. Local archaeologists determined that the bones, which were found alongside medical waste artifacts from the hospital, were remains from anatomical dissections conducted in the 1870s. As no records of these dissections exist, this volume turns to historical, archaeological, and bioarchaeological analysis to understand the function of the pit and the identities of the people represented in it. In these essays, contributors show how the remains discovered are postmortem manifestations of social inequality, evidence that nineteenth-century surgical and anatomical research benefited from and perpetuated structural violence against marginalized individuals. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen"--

"This volume uses historical, archaeological, and bioarchaeological analysis to study and understand a nineteenth-century medical waste pit discovered at the former Army hospital at Point San Jose in San Francisco"--