Description: Elkins offers a rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era.
Brief description: Evan Elkins is Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Culture at Colorado State University. He is the author of Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (NYU Press, 2019).
Review Quotes: "'Lockout'--the region code restrictions in DVDs and videogame consoles and geo-blocking in on-demand services--is at once a more insidious and banal form of control than that envisaged by critics of cultural imperialism. In this wide-ranging book, Evan Elkins has brought us up to date on the textured detail of such technological control, and bequeathed us the theory tools to understand its impact on culture, audiences, and producers."--Stuart Cunningham, co-author of Social Media Entertainment