An account of the rise of Video on Demand as a method of distribution for arthouse and independent films, focusing on the IFC Films and Magnolia Pictures companies, and charting the growing success of streaming video as opposed to DVD and theatrical releasing.

ABSTRACT At the forefront of online streaming video, YouTube has expanded access to a rich spectrum of televisual material and suggests the potential for democratization of media memories and fl ows. Yet, the site also introduces new ways to regulate and deny access to such content under the guise of enforcing copyright.

This review of Adaptation (2002) argues that the film productively narrativizes masturbation's myriad associations, pathologies, and, most importantly, possibilities for creative inspiration. The self-reflexive film presents writers as autoerotic fantasizers who suffer through malaise and self-doubt,and struggle to express themselves and to believe in what they are writing.