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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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910686769103321

Titolo

Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies / / edited by Alexandra Petrulevich, Simon Skovgaard Boeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781802700794

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 pages): : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Collana

Collection development, cultural heritage, and digital humanities

Soggetti

Spatial history

Spatial data infrastructures

Space perception

Space perception - History - To 1500

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE DIGITAL SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN THE HUMANITIES -- Chapter 1 NORSE WORLD FROM PLAN TO ACTION: BUILDING A DIGITAL GAZETTEER OF EAST NORSE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE STEP BY STEP -- Chapter 2 MAPPING SAINTS: CREATING A DIGITAL



SPATIAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE TO STUDY MEDIEVAL LIVED RELIGION -- Chapter 3 MEDIEVAL TO MODERN: USING SPATIAL DATA FROM THE DIGITAL PROJECTS ICELANDIC SAGA MAP AND NAFNIÐ.IS TO EXPLORE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN NARRATIVE AND PLACE IN ICELAND -- Chapter 4 TORA: TOPOGRAPHICAL REGISTER AT THE SWEDISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES -- Chapter 5 TOWARD DIGITAL SPATIALITY: RETHINKING THE WORLD’S LARGEST PLACE- NAME COLLECTION -- PART TWO BUILDING AND SUSTAINING DIGITAL SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURES: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS -- Chapter 6 PLACE- NAME DATABASES: A SPATIO- TEMPORAL MESS -- Chapter 7 SUSTAINABILITY AND BEST PRACTICES FOR LINKED DATA HERITAGE RESOURCES: SOME CASE STUDIES FROM SWEDEN -- Chapter 8 INTEGRATING TIME AND SPACE IN A DIGITAL-HISTORICAL ADMINISTRATIVE ATLAS -- Chapter 9 A DIGITAL PERIEGESIS: IMPLEMENTING SPATIAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES FOR CLASSICAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY -- PART THREE THE NORSE PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD: MEDIEVAL SPATIALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE -- Chapter 10 FLORES TRAVELS TO BABYLON: FLORES OCH BLANZEFLOR IN ITS EUROPEAN CONTEXT -- Chapter 11 PLACE- NAME VARIATION IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE -- Chapter 12 NAMELESS PLACES -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions in pre-modern societies. Digitization of cultural heritage collections, open source databases, and interactive resources utilizing a rich variety of source materials—place names, early modern cadastral maps, medieval literature and art, Viking Age and medieval runic inscriptions—provides opportunities to re-think traditional lines of research on spatiality and worldviews, encourage innovation in methodology, and engage critically with digital outcomes. In this book, Nordic scholars of philology, onomastics, history, geography, literary studies, and digital humanities examine multiple aspects of ten large- and small-scale digital spatial infrastructures from the early stages of development to the practical applications of digital tools for studying spatial thinking and knowledge in pre-modern sources and societies.