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Call No: 171(94) AUS
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission
Source: AT
Place: Pymble, N.S.W
Publisher: Playbill in association with the Australian Film Fair
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: 191 pages. ; 21 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM FAIR; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; HOME VIDEO; HOME VIDEO. AUSTRALIA; CABLE TV. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Directory of the first Australian Film Fair. Includes short articles, the Australian Film Fair programme and trade directories.
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0959300686

Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Author: Royall, Ian
Subject: DISTRIBUTION. DVD. AUSTRALIA; HOME VIDEO MARKETING; AUSTRALIAN VISUAL SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION; BUSH, SIMON
Summary: The slashing of DVD prices fuels high sales of the product. The article looks at the shortening of cinema to DVD sales release and why DVD is a popular format. Good article!
Notes: -- accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007).
Quotations: -- "Big chains such as Big W, Kmart and Target are driving prices on DVDs and CDs down to bare margins to lure customers. Full retail price for a new movie is usually more than $40, but the chains are marking them down to about $27, while the same titles sell in specialist retailers for $36 to $40."; -- ""Studios are making decisions now as to whether to fund movies, based on follow-through sales to DVD and video" Mr Bush said."; -- "Distributors also have shortened the time between cinema release and DVD release. Initially it was to beat piracy, but the extra incentive is to get the movie out while it's still fresh in the public's mind. A few years ago, the gap between cinema and DVD release was as much as 18 months. Now, it can be as brief as three months, depending on the studio and the type of movie."

Call No: 432.4 DEC
Author: Decherney, Peter
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: AUTHORSHIP; COPYRIGHT; COPYRIGHT. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HOME VIDEO; INTERNET; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; LAW AND THE CINEMA; LAW AND TV; PARODY; PIRACY; PLAGIARISM; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; LUCAS, GEORGE; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA; YOUTUBE
Summary: "Beginning with Thomas Edison's aggressive copyright disputes and concluding with recent lawsuits against YouTube, Hollywood's Copyright Wars follows the struggle of the film, television, and digital media industries to influence and adapt to copyright law. Though much of Hollywood's engagement with the law occurs offstage, in the larger theater of copyright, many of Hollywood's valued treasures - from Modern Times (1936) to Star Wars (1977) - cannot be fully understood without appreciating their legal controversies. Peter Decherney shows that the history of intellectual property in Hollywood has not always mirrored the evolution of the law and recounts these extralegal solutions and their impact on American media and culture." - BOOK BLURB
Notes: Contains list of illustrations and index
ISBN: 9780231159470

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: HOME VIDEO

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: HOME VIDEO MARKETING

Call No: 79 MAD NEW
Author: Newton, James
Edition: 2021
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PhysDes: 216 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Subject: [TWENTY-NINETEEN] 2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK [2019: DOPO LA CADUTA DI NEW YORK] (IT/FR, Sergio Martino, 1983); ANDERSON, WES; AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986); DEATH RACE 2000 (US, Paul Bartel, 1975); DEATH RUN (UK, Michael J. Murphy, 1987); DEATH WISH (US, Michael Winner, 1974); EXPLOITATION FILMS; EXTERMINATOR, THE (US, James Glickenhaus, 1980); HOME VIDEO; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); MILLER, GEORGE; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV
Summary: The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s. The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781501342295
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Origins of the Road Warrior -- Chapter Two: The Death Race Lineage -- Chapter Three: Contextualising Mad Max -- Chapter Four: The Politics of Mad Max -- Chapter Five: MadMaxploitation! Transnational Road Warriors -- Chapter Six: Fury Road and the Imitation of Exploitation -- Chapter Seven: Mad Max and the metatext: Fan Engagement and Online Culture -- Conclusion: A Few Years From Now -- List of Films -- Reference List -- Index

Call No: 401(94) MED
Author: Cunningham, Stuart; Turner, Graeme
Edition: 2nd ed
Place: St Leonards, N.S.W.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: xviii, 490 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; ADVERTISING. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; PAY TV. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION, TV. AUSTRALIA; NEWS PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA; DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; HOME VIDEO. AUSTRALIA; RATINGS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL; COUNTRY PRACTICE, A [TV] (AT, 1981-1993, 1994); PERFECT MATCH [TV] (AT, 1984-89?)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 441-467
ISBN: 1864482737
LON: 12826003

Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Author: Klinger, Barbara
Subject: HOME VIDEO MARKETING; HOME EXHIBITION; HOME EQUIPMENT
Summary: Looks at the Home Theatre Expereince, which does not only attempt to replicate the cinema but also creates a new way to view films.

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SYME HOME VIDEO

Author: Hall, Jeanne (ed)
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CONFERENCES. USA; TONGUES UNTIED (US, Marlon Riggs, 1989); HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; HOME VIDEO; WISEMAN, FREDERICK
Summary: Collection of articles from the 12th annual Ohio University Film Conference which focused on documentary film and video. Topics looked at include gay representation in 'Tongues Untied', an analysis of a Brazilian documentary on America, the impact of home videos at weddings, the misconception of documentary cinema by viewers, and an analysis on Frederick Wiseman's 'Meat' and 'Primate'.

Call No: 410.82 NUG
Author: Nugent, Michael
CorpAuthor: Macquarie University
Source: AT
Place: Sydney, N.S.W.
Publisher: Macquarie University
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 59 pages ; 30 cm
Subject: VIDEO RECORDERS; VIDEO, FILMS ON. AUSTRALIA; VIEWERS. AUSTRALIA; HOME EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; HOME EQUIPMENT; HOME VIDEO. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "This thesis is to serve as a history of the Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) in Australia. It has been done because while there are numerous histories relating to other aspects of Australian media, the history of the VCR itself remains little more than an aspect of narratives focused on other phenomena. This was done through extensive examination of discursive sources, such as popular magazines, newspapers and trade journals. By reading these publications over the course of several years, I have been able to identify several trends unfolding over time, noting how popular conceptions of the technology have changed. By comparing these with work done on the history of home video in other countries, it allows for a greater understanding of what is unique to Australia’s history with the VCR. Perhaps the most significant finding is that the idea of what a VCR can offer is perpetually changing. What began as a simple means to record and playback programmes from television broadcasts quickly became a key part of commercial film distribution fundamentally altered the way in which people experience their television sets. As such, a struggle for position by producers, distributors and consumers erupted, as it irrevocably changed media in Australia." FROM ABSTRACT
Notes: Thesis paper -- ringbound -- includes acknowledgements and bibliography
Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The VCR in the public sphere -- Chapter 3. The VCR in the domestic sphere -- Chapter 4. The legacy of the VCR

Call No: 410.82 GRA
Author: Gray, Ann
Edition: 1992
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: x,270 p. ; 21 cm
Series: Comedia
Subject: HOME VIDEO; VIDEO RECORDERS; VIDEO AND TELEVISION; GENDER AND TELEVISION
ISBN: 0415058651
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Questions of method -- 2 Organization of spare time -- 3 Viewing contexts and related texts -- 4 Viewing and reading preferences -- 5 Technology in the domestic environment -- 6 The VCR: time-shift -- 7 The VCR: hiring tapes -- 8 Gender and class in the household -- Appendix: sample details by socio-economic category -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call No: 301.83(-4)(94) VID
Place: Crows Nest, NSW
Publisher: Video trader Publications
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 52 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: STATISTICS. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION; HOME VIDEO MARKETING
Order Received: 1997

Call No: 301.83(-4)(94) VID REF
Source: AT
Place: Sydney, NSW
Publisher: Video Trader Publications
PubDate: [2000]
PhysDes: 48 p.
Subject: STATISTICS. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION; HOME VIDEO MARKETING