Title:
I lost it at the video store : a filmmakers' oral history of a vanished era / Tom Roston.
Author:
Roston, Tom, interviewer.
ISBN:
9781941629154
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
154 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content Type:
text
Media Type (RDA):
unmediated
Carrier Type:
volume
Contents:
Introduction: strangers in paradise -- Filmmaker glossary -- Losing it -- An education -- Clerk life -- The indie-horror paradigm -- Stocking the shelves -- The man with the keys -- Reservoir Dogs -- Follow the money -- Kevin Smith grabs the mic -- The second clerk generation -- Three nails in the coffin: Blockbuster, DVD, and the Internet -- Wake up streaming -- What's lost -- Appendix: "Passing of a video store and a downtown aesthetic," The New York Times, July 24th, 2014.
Abstract:
"In I lost it at the video store, Tom Roston interviews the filmmakers, including John Sayles, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell and Allison Adners, who came of age during the reign of video rentals"--jacket flap.
Format:
Books