Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers (Texas Film and Media)
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Film trailers -- United States. Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description. She additionally analyzes the trailers for twenty-seven renowned Hollywood movies from the classical, transitional, and modern eras, exploring what the rhetorical appeals inside those trailers show approximately Hollywood's altering conceptions of the moviegoing viewers.
Kernan argues that motion picture trailers represent a long-standing hybrid of ads and cinema and, as such, are precursors to present day seriously commercialized cultural kinds within which artwork and advertising develop into more and more indistinguishable. Read Online or Download Coming Attractions: Writers in Hollywood, Appears to be like on the background of screenwriters below the previous studio approach, and explains why they obtained so little credits for his or her contributions.
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