Film and Television After DVD

James Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at London Metropolitan University. His work is primarily concerned with digital television and television stardom. It has appeared in New Review of Film & Television Studies, Multimedia Histories, Studies in Australasian Cinema, Screen, Convergence and Media International Australia (with Niki Strange). Tom Brown is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading. His research is focused primarily on the analysis of the relationship between film style and technology, the role of spectacle in French and American "classical" film, and the history of "direct address" in the cinema.

• IntroductionJames Bennett (London Metropolitan University) & Tom Brown (University of Warwick)1. DVD and home film cultures Professor Barbara Klinger (Indiana University)2. Representing DVD as new technologyProfessor William Boddy (City Univerity of New York)3. The Relationship between DVD, Television Scholarship, and AestheticsDr. James Walters (Birmingham) 4. A taste for leeches: DVDs, cultural hierarchies and queer consumptionGlyn Davis (University of Bristol)5. DVD of Attractions? The Lion King and the digital theme parkTom Brown (University of Warwick)6. Re-Directing films: Authorship and the DVDCatherine Grant (University of Kent)7. The purpose and practice of academic DVD commentariesIn conversation with Professor Ginette Vincendeau (Kings College, London) & Caroline Millar (British Film Institute)8. DVDs and the political economy of attention Jo T Smith (University of Auckland)9. Prefiguring DVD bonus tracks: Making-ofs and behind-the-scenes as historic television programming strategiesJohn T. Caldwell (UCLA)NotesBibliographyIndex

'One of the first scholarly books in English to be entirely devoted to the DVD' - The Art Book'Students in sociology of art, film, media, and cultural studies will surely learn from it' - The Art Book