Document Type
Article
Keywords
DVD commentary
Disciplines
Broadcast and Video Studies | Communication | Communication Technology and New Media
Abstract
In the last few decades, as graduate seminars have explored the
postmodern heuristics of the “death of the author,” DVD editions
have popularized a range of audio and print supplements that
have, directly or indirectly, expanded films’ authorial halo. The notion
of the commentary is, of course, nothing new to the academy:
consider the multiple annotated editions of literary classics. But its
material extension to the home theater “experience” has had peculiar
cultural and economic consequences. As value-adding paratexts,
audio and printed commentaries can turn film texts into critical or
luxury editions, to be marketed to different levels of cinephilic and
commercial consumption.
Article Number
1001
Publication Date
Spring 2010
Recommended Citation
Reich, Jacqueline and Bertellini, Giorgio, "DVD Supplements: A Commentary on Commentaries" (2010). CMS Faculty Publications. 2.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/comm_facultypubs/2
Comments
Originally published in Cinema Jounal, Volume 49 Number 3, Spring 2010, pp. 103-105.