Video Playtime: The Gendering of a Leisure Technology / Edition 1

by Ann Gray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415058643
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/26/1992
Series:	Comedia
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ann Gray is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. She has published related articles in a number of journals including Screen and Marxism Today, and has contributed to Boxed In: Women and Television (1987), edited by Helen Baehr and Gillian Dyer.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Questions of method 2 Organization of spare time 3 Viewing contexts and related texts 4 Viewing and reading preferences 5 Technology in the domestic environment 6 The VCR: time-shift 7 The VCR: hiring tapes 8 Gender and class in the household Appendix: sample details by socio-economic category