Barbara Klinger, Associate Professor of Communication and Culture and Director of Film and Media at Indiana University, is author of Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk (1994).

"Barbara Klinger provides a detailed and insightful glimpse into the major place we watch movies today: the home! Connecting discourses, technologies, and consumer behavior, she writes a superb examination of the places, means, and drive for personal control of our visual and aural pleasures, changing our gaze from the multiplex screen to our own living spaces. A crucial contribution to contemporary studies in film, television, and new media!" - Janet Staiger, author of Media Reception Studies"

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Cinema Today? 1. The New Media Aristocrats: Home Theater and the Film Experience 2. The Contemporary Cinephile: Film Collecting After the VCR 3. Remembrance of Films Past: Cable Television and Classic Hollywood Cinema 4. Once Is Not Enough: The Functions and Pleasures of Repeat Viewings 5. To Infinity and Beyond: The Web Short, Parody, and Remediation Conclusion: Of Fortresses and Film Cultures Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Barbara Klinger, Associate Professor of Communication and Culture and Director of Film and Media at Indiana University, is author of Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk (1994).

"Barbara Klinger provides a detailed and insightful glimpse into the major place we watch movies today: the home! Connecting discourses, technologies, and consumer behavior, she writes a superb examination of the places, means, and drive for personal control of our visual and aural pleasures, changing our gaze from the multiplex screen to our own living spaces. A crucial contribution to contemporary studies in film, television, and new media!" - Janet Staiger, author of Media Reception Studies"

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Cinema Today? 1. The New Media Aristocrats: Home Theater and the Film Experience 2. The Contemporary Cinephile: Film Collecting After the VCR 3. Remembrance of Films Past: Cable Television and Classic Hollywood Cinema 4. Once Is Not Enough: The Functions and Pleasures of Repeat Viewings 5. To Infinity and Beyond: The Web Short, Parody, and Remediation Conclusion: Of Fortresses and Film Cultures Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Barbara Klinger, Associate Professor of Communication and Culture and Director of Film and Media at Indiana University, is author of Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk (1994).

"Barbara Klinger provides a detailed and insightful glimpse into the major place we watch movies today: the home! Connecting discourses, technologies, and consumer behavior, she writes a superb examination of the places, means, and drive for personal control of our visual and aural pleasures, changing our gaze from the multiplex screen to our own living spaces. A crucial contribution to contemporary studies in film, television, and new media!" - Janet Staiger, author of Media Reception Studies"

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Cinema Today? 1. The New Media Aristocrats: Home Theater and the Film Experience 2. The Contemporary Cinephile: Film Collecting After the VCR 3. Remembrance of Films Past: Cable Television and Classic Hollywood Cinema 4. Once Is Not Enough: The Functions and Pleasures of Repeat Viewings 5. To Infinity and Beyond: The Web Short, Parody, and Remediation Conclusion: Of Fortresses and Film Cultures Notes Selected Bibliography Index