{"product_id":"video-playtime-ann-gray-9780415058643","title":"Video Playtime: The Gendering of a Leisure Technology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003eVideo Playtime\u003c\/em\u003e Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these entertainment facilities were used within their households, and what kinds of programmes and films they themselves particularly enjoyed.\u003cbr\u003eAnn Gray draws heavily on verbatim quotes from discussions to provide a rich description of different types of household micro-cultures and to give readers more direct access to the women themselves and the ways in which they accounted for their own experience. \u003cem\u003eVideo Playtime\u003c\/em\u003e addresses questions of domestic technology as well as those of taste and cultural preference, particularly in relation to class, addressing the dynamics of power within existing social and cultural relations and thereby setting the analysis within a much wider social context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Gray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415058643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415058643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.58w x 1.08d","brand":"Ann Gray","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086555820287,"sku":"9780415058643","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5f11980c-9470-417a-aa22-c587ae8dad9d.jpg?v=1769095351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/video-playtime-ann-gray-9780415058643","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}