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Video playtime : the gendering of a leisure technology / Ann Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Ann, 1946-
- Series:
- Comedia.
- Comedia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video recordings--Social aspects.
- Video recordings.
- Video recording--Social aspects.
- Video recording.
- Television and women.
- Physical Description:
- 269 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The explosion of the use of VCRs in the home has provided the most significant new form of home entertainment since television. Gray discusses the experiences of women using VCRs and the social and cultural background to ownership.
- Contents:
- chapter Introduction
- chapter 1 1Questions of method
- chapter 2 2Organization of spare time
- chapter 3 3Viewing contexts and related texts
- chapter 4 4Viewing and reading preferences
- chapter 5 5Technology in the domestic environment
- chapter 6 6The VCR: time-shift
- chapter 7 7The VCR: hiring tapes
- chapter 8 8Gender and class in the household.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-93131-X
- 0-203-13550-4
- 1-134-93132-8
- 1-280-51765-4
- 9786610517657
- 9780203135501
- OCLC:
- 174115392
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