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Australian film fair directory / Australian Film Commission Pymble, N.S.W: Playbill in association with the Australian Film Fair, 1983.
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Fans homing in on cheap DVDs in Sunday Times (07/03/2004) p.27
Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDERAuthor: 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."
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Hollywood's copyright wars : from Edison to the internet / Peter Decherney New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Call No: 432.4 DECAuthor: Decherney, Peter Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2013PhysDes: xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: AUTHORSHIP ; COPYRIGHT ; COPYRIGHT. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HOLLYWOOD ; 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 BLURBNotes: Contains list of illustrations and indexISBN: 9780231159470
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Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILEPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: HOME VIDEO
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The media in Australia : industries, texts, audiences / edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1997.
Call No: 401(94) MEDAuthor: Cunningham, Stuart ; Turner, Graeme Edition: 2nd edPlace: St Leonards, N.S.W.Publisher: Allen & UnwinPubDate: 1997PhysDes: xviii, 490 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: 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, 1981-1995?) ; PERFECT MATCH [TV] (AT, 1984-89?) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 441-467ISBN: 1864482737LON: 12826003
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The new media aristocrats : home theatre and the domestic film experience in Velvet Light Trap (Fall 1998) iss.42 p.4-19
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Orion Pictures Int'l. and RCIV join in major int.'l deal in Australasian Cinema (Friday, 31/5-6/6/1985) vol.14 iss.9 p.5
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SYME HOME VIDEO
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Twelfth Annual Ohio University Film Conference : Documentary in Wide Angle (April 1991) vol.13 iss.2 p.[whole issue]
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Video cassette revolution : The VCR in Australia / Michael Nugent Sydney, N.S.W.: Macquarie University, 2014.
Call No: 410.82 NUGAuthor: Nugent, Michael CorpAuthor: Macquarie UniversitySource: ATPlace: Sydney, N.S.W.Publisher: Macquarie UniversityPubDate: 2014PhysDes: 59 pages ; 30 cmSubject: 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 ABSTRACTNotes: Thesis paper -- ringbound -- includes acknowledgements and bibliographyContents: 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
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Video playtime : The gendering of a leisure technology London: Routledge, 1992.
Call No: 410.82 GRAAuthor: Gray, Ann Edition: 1992Place: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1992PhysDes: x,270 p. ; 21 cmSeries: ComediaSubject: HOME VIDEO ; VIDEO RECORDERS ; VIDEO AND TELEVISION ; GENDER AND TELEVISION ISBN: 0415058651Contents: 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.
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Video trader : 1999 yearbook Australia: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2000.
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Video trader 1997 yearbook / Video Trader Publications Crows Nest, NSW: Video trader Publications, 1997.
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Video trader 2000 yearbook / Video Trader Publications Sydney, NSW: Video Trader Publications, [2000].
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