DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond

Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media Consumption

Jonathan Wroot, Andy Willis, Jonathan Wroot, Andy Willis

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319627571
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319627588
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Part I The Continuing Significance of Discs in Film Consumption
• Chapter 2 Disneyizing Home Entertainment Distribution
• Chapter 3 ‘Now I Am the Master’: Home Video, Canon, and Authorship Among George, Lucasfilm, Fox, and Fans
• Chapter 4 Combining Nemo: Pixar Home Media and the DVD of Narrative Integration
• Chapter 5 Letting the Fans Be Involved: Third Window’s Cultivation of an Audience for Disc Releases
• Chapter 6 The Education Market for Screen Media: DVD in a Time of Digital Abundance
• Part II Contexts: Patterns of Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption
• Chapter 7 Film Distribution: A Changing Business
• Chapter 8 The Rise of the Feature Documentary—Fact or Fiction?
• Chapter 9 Up All Night: The Shifting Roles of Home Media Formats as Transmedia Storytelling
• Chapter 10 Box Sets on the Set-Top Box: The Promotion of on Demand Television in Britain
• Chapter 11 A Labour of Love: Fantrepreneurship in Home Video Media Distribution
• Chapter 12 ‘To Own or not to Own?’ Home Video Devices, Applications, Formats, and the Family Decision-Making Process Behind the Viewing Choice
• Index