1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777694703321

Autore

Kernan Lisa

Titolo

Coming attractions [[electronic resource] ] : reading American movie trailers / / Lisa Kernan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2004

ISBN

0-292-79725-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Texas film and media series

Disciplina

791.43/75/0973

Soggetti

Film trailers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Filmography of trailers viewed: p. 219-232.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Trailers: A Cinema of (Coming) Attractions -- Chapter 2 Trailer Rhetoric -- Chapter 3 The Classical Era: The "Mythic Universal American" -- Chapter 4 The Transitional Era: Chasing the Elusive Audience -- Chapter 5 The Contemporary Era: The Global Family Audience -- Chapter 6 Conclusion. The Cinema Is Dead: Long Live the Cinema of (Coming) Attractions -- Filmography of Trailers Viewed -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Movie trailers-those previews of coming attractions before the start of a feature film-are routinely praised and reviled by moviegoers and film critics alike: "They give away too much of the movie." "They're better than the films." "They only show the spectacular parts." "They lie." "They're the best part of going to the movies." But whether you love them or hate them, trailers always serve their purpose of offering free samples of a film to influence moviegoing decision-making. Indeed, with their inclusion on videotapes, DVDs, and on the Internet, trailers are more widely seen and influential now than at any time in their history. Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this pioneering book explores the genre's conventions and offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers. Lisa Kernan identifies three principal rhetorical strategies that structure trailers: appeals to audience interest in film genres, stories, and/or stars. She also analyzes the trailers for twenty-seven popular



Hollywood films from the classical, transitional, and contemporary eras, exploring what the rhetorical appeals within these trailers reveal about Hollywood's changing conceptions of the moviegoing audience. Kernan argues that movie trailers constitute a long-standing hybrid of advertising and cinema and, as such, are precursors to today's heavily commercialized cultural forms in which art and marketing become increasingly indistinguishable.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOLO11093705

Autore

Dobb, Maurice

Titolo

Capitalism yesterday and today / by Maurice Dobb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Lawrence & Wishart, 1958

Descrizione fisica

63 p. ; 19 cm.

Collana

Socialism today series

Disciplina

330.122

Soggetti

Capitalismo

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.F. SANTI                703

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia