DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media Consumption

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Jonathan Wroot, Andy Willis)....Pages 1-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Disneyizing Home Entertainment Distribution (Jason Scott)....Pages 15-33 ‘Now I Am the Master’: Home Video, Canon, and Authorship Among George, Lucasfilm, Fox, and Fans (Andrew James Myers)....Pages 35-52 Combining Nemo: Pixar Home Media and the DVD of Narrative Integration (Christopher Holliday)....Pages 53-72 Letting the Fans Be Involved: Third Window’s Cultivation of an Audience for Disc Releases (Jonathan Wroot)....Pages 73-91 The Education Market for Screen Media: DVD in a Time of Digital Abundance (Ruari Elkington)....Pages 93-111 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Film Distribution: A Changing Business (Roderik Smits)....Pages 115-134 The Rise of the Feature Documentary—Fact or Fiction? (Shane O’Sullivan)....Pages 135-157 Up All Night: The Shifting Roles of Home Media Formats as Transmedia Storytelling (Matthew Freeman, William Proctor)....Pages 159-176 Box Sets on the Set-Top Box: The Promotion of on Demand Television in Britain (Sam Ward)....Pages 177-196 A Labour of Love: Fantrepreneurship in Home Video Media Distribution (Oliver Carter)....Pages 197-213 ‘To Own or not to Own?’ Home Video Devices, Applications, Formats, and the Family Decision-Making Process Behind the Viewing Choice (Ksenia Frolova)....Pages 215-235 Back Matter ....Pages 237-244