Introduction : the cultural biography of a film -- Listening to Casablanca : radio adaptations and sonic Hollywood -- Back in theaters : postwar repertory houses and cult cinema -- Everyday films : broadcast television, reruns, and canonizing old Hollywood -- Movie valentines : holiday cult and the romantic canon in VHS video culture -- Happy anniversaries : classic cinema on DVD/Blu-ray in the conglomerate age -- Epilogue : streaming Casablanca and afterthoughts -- Appendix one : Casablanca's first appearances on US platforms/formats -- Appendix two : Casablanca's physical format video rereleases.
Summary:
"Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing from archival materials, industry trade journals, and cultural commentary, Barbara Klinger explores the history of Casablanca's circulation in the United States from the early 1940s to the present by examining its exhibition on platforms that include radio, repertory houses, television, and video. By resituating the film in the dynamically changing industrial, technological, media, and cultural circumstances that defined its journey over eight decades, Klinger challenges our understanding of its meaning and reputation as both a Hollywood classic and a cult film. Through this single-film study, Immortal Films proposes a new approach to the study of film history and aesthetics and, more broadly, to cinema itself as a medium in constant interface with other media as a necessary condition of its own public existence and endurance"-- Provided by publisher.
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