Point of Sale

Analyzing Media Retail
Herausgeber: Herbert, Daniel; Johnson, Derek

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers the first significant attempt to centre media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. This book brings together fifteen essays by media scholars that explore both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780813595528
• ISBN-10: 0813595525
• Artikelnr.: 57016198

Autorenporträt

DANIEL HERBERT is an associate professor in the department of film, television, and media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  He is the author of Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store and Film Remakes and Franchises.   DEREK JOHNSON is professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is the author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries and Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture.   

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Media Studies in the Retail Apocalypse
Derek Johnson and Daniel Herbert
            Part I: Retail and New Media Technologies
Chapter 1: Industrial Crossroads or Cross Purposes? Circuit City, DIVX, and
the History of Multi-functional Media Retailers
Daniel Herbert
Chapter 2: Amazon, Bookseller: Disruption and Continuity in Digital
Capitalism
Emily West
Chapter 3: The First Sale Doctrine and U.S. Media Retail
Gregory
Steirer                                                                                              
Chapter 4: Game Retail and Crowdfunding
Heikki Tyni and Olli Sotamaa
Chapter 5: The App Store: Female Consumers, Shopping, and Digital Culture
Elizabeth Affuso
            Part II: Media and the Politics of Constructing Retail Space
Chapter 6: Shelf Flow: Spatial Logics, Product Categorizations, and Media
Brands at Retail
Avi Santo
Chapter 7: Get Your Cape On: Target’s Invitation to the DC Universe
Ethan Tussey and Meredith Bak
Chapter 8: Shop, Makeover, Love: Transformative Paratexts and Aspirational
Fandom for Female-Driven Franchises
Courtney Brannon Donoghue
Chapter 9: Female Treble: Gender, Record Retail, and a Play for Space
Tim J. Anderson
Chapter 10: “It’s Not Just Commerce, It’s Community”: Erotic Media and the
Feminist Sex-Toy Store Revolution
Lynn Comella
            Part III: Practices and Participation in Media Retail
Communities
Chapter 11: Comic Book Stores as Sites of Struggle
Benjamin Woo and Nasreen Rajani
Chapter 12: From Dealer’s Room to Exhibit Hall: Comic Retailing and the San
Diego Comic-Con
Erin Hanna
Chapter 13: The Changing Scales of Diasporic Media Retail
Evan Elkins
Chapter 14: Delivering Media: The Convenience Store as Media Mix Hub
Marc Steinberg
Chapter 15: Retail Wizardry: Constructing Media Fantasies from the Point of
Sale
Derek Johnson