The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet

by Paul Young

By the middle of the twentieth century, Hollywood, formerly the one and only dream factory, found itself facing a host of media rivals for the public's attention. In the 1980s, another competitor arrived in the form of the proto-Internet--a computer network as yet untested by all but research scientists, college students, the military, and a few thousand PC and modem owners. How did Hollywood respond to this nascent challenge? By dreaming about it,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816635994
• ISBN13: 9780816635993
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"