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Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 13, No. 3, 223-230 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1354856507079174

Early Home Cinema

The Origins of Alternative Spectatorship

Sheila Chalke

Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, mail{at}chalke.fsnet.co.uk

Current developments in high-definition technological systems for home viewing link definitively with early Home Cinema, as practised from the late 1890s, as an alternative to public spectatorship. The traditions of Home Cinema, in encompassing degrees of informality, interaction and control within domestic exhibition, served to lay foundations for a televisual experience which, today, having come full-circle, is defining itself once more as `Home Cinema'.

Key Words: amateur practice • Home Cinema • informal viewing • interactivity • prediction • televisual experience


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