Video Playtime

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Questions of method

2 Organization of spare time

3 Viewing contexts and related texts

4 Viewing and reading preferences

5 Technology in the domestic environment

6 The VCR: time-shift

7 The VCR: hiring tapes

8 Gender and class in the household

Appendix: sample details by socio-economic category

Notes

Bibliography

Index