Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

In 1997, DVD was introduced to the American public, beginning the fastest diffusion of any consumer electronics product in history. In this dissertation, I show how DVD, via favorable conditions in industry, technology, culture, economics, and the regulatory environment, replaced existing home video and computing technologies while transforming home entertainment. I analyze how DVD was successfully developed and commercialized by member firms in the filmed entertainment, consumer electronics, and computing industries from 1994-2002. I demonstrate how a new industry developed around DVD through unprecedented cooperation between these three industries. This study uses trade publications, mainstream press reports, industry data, advertisements, depositions to congress, and published interviews with industry members to analyze a process that has been understudied by scholars. Through the use of these resources, I explore how demand for the technology developed within existing contexts and how myriad forces aligned to enable the emergence of a new disc technology. Furthermore, I demonstrate how DVD reshaped these contexts while transforming the nature and business of filmed content distribution. DVD initiated a new era for digital content distribution. This era was marked by the convergence of three industries, new levels of access to filmed entertainment, mobilized viewing opportunities, the conflation of the computer and the television set, and heightened efforts to protect content through a variety of legal, regulatory, and technological strategies.

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Music video is an intriguing genre of television due to the fact that music drives the images and ideas found in numerous and varied examples of the form. Pre-recorded pieces of pop music are visually written upon in a palimpsest manner, resulting in an immediate and entertaining synchronisation of sound and vision. Ever since the popularity of MTV in the early 1980s, music video has been a persistent fixture in academic discussion, most notably in the work of writers like E. Ann Kaplan, Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin. What has been of major interest to such cultural scholars is the fact that music video was designed as a promotional tool in their inception, supporting album sales and increasing the stardom of the featured recording artists. Authorship in music video studies has been traditionally kept to the representation of music stars, how they incorporate post-modern references and touch upon wider cultural themes (the Marilyn Monroe pastiche for the Madonna video, Material Girl (1985) for instance). What has not been greatly discussed is the contribution of music video directors, and the reason for that is the target audience for music videos are teenagers, who respond more to the presence of the singer or the band than the unknown figure of the director, a view that is also adhered to by music television channels like MTV.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 imagem.pdf: 3526629 bytes, checksum: 2b8ae7994cf555fe9618160e1573cba8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-05 / The images (painting, photograph, cinema, etc.) had always been constructed for specific ends and through the mediation between us (spectators) and the reality, it was possible to represent the world that surrounded us. With the arrival of the graphical computation and new digital formats, the image acquires new abilities. To argue the properties and trends of the digital image are extremely excellent aspects for the development of new systems, processes and theories in communication. When it is conceived and allied to the interface concept, this image can be transformed into image-interface, thus multiplying, its characteristics and potentialities. A good platform to think the digital medias as inhabitable medias and the parameters to argue the transformation of the image in image interface is the digital video disc, because it possess technical characteristics witch allows the mapping of information and the storage of great amount of data. The objective of this research is to argue and apply the image-interface concepts, elaborated mainly by Peter Weibel, Lev Manovich and Mark Hansen, in the DVDs and the new formats of the digital communication like the Internet and electronic panels. The interfaces analysis of commercial and experimental DVDs and DVD Roms will allow to understand the current limitations in the interfaces´exploration and argue if it is possible to extend its resources and to use these concepts in the scope of a market culture, which a media quickly is substituted by another one before they deplete its possibilities / As imagens (pintura, fotografia, cinema, etc.) sempre foram construídas para fins específicos e através da mediação entre nós (espectadores) e a realidade, foi possível representar o mundo que nos cercava. Com a chegada da computação gráfica e de novos formatos digitais, a imagem adquire novas competências. Discutir as propriedades e tendências da imagem digital são aspectos extremamente relevantes para o desenvolvimento de novos sistemas, processos e teorias comunicacionais. Ao ser concebida e aliada ao conceito de interface, essa imagem pode ser transformada em imagem interface, multiplicando assim, suas características e potencialidades. Uma boa plataforma para pensar as mídias digitais e os parâmetros para discutir a transformação da imagem em imagem interface é o disco de vídeo digital, pois possui características técnicas que permitem o mapeamento de informações e o armazenamento de grande quantidade de dados. O objetivo desta pesquisa é discutir e aplicar os conceitos de imagem-interface, elaborados principalmente por Peter Weibel, Lev Manovich e Mark Hansen, no ambiente dos DVDs e dos novos formatos da comunicação digital, como a Internet e os painéis eletrônicos. A análise de interfaces de DVDs e DVD Roms comerciais e experimentais permitirá entender as limitações atuais na exploração da interface e interrogar se é possível ampliar seus recursos e se utilizar desse conceitos no âmbito de uma cultura de mercado, dentro da qual uma mídia é rapidamente substituída por outra antes que esgotem suas possibilidades