Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"Beyond the Multiplex is a well-organized, even-keeled, and lucid account of the home as an exhibition space that encourages particular film cultures, each of which contributes to and activates differently the meaning of film texts." -- Paul Monticone Canadian Journal Of Film Stds