Kód: 04937832

Screen Traffic

Name: Screen Traffic
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 04937832
Price: 851.00 CZK
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Autor Charles R. Acland

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Počet stran: 352
Nakladatelství: Duke University Press, 2003
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In Screen Traffic Charles R. Acland looks at how the commercial movie industry has altered conceptions of movie going both within the industry and among audiences. He shows how studios, in their increasing reliance on revenues from audiences around the world, have cultivated a global understanding of their products over the past fifteen to twenty years. In doing so, Acland argues, they have significantly changed the cultural practice of movie going. He explores this transformation by investigating the generation and dissemination of knowledge about studio movies. Integrating film and cultural theory with promotional materials, entertainment news, trade publications, and economic commentary, Acland examines an array of sites where a new understanding of movies and movie going has developed within popular culture and the entertainment industry. One way a diverse audience is united, he contends, is through a growing Hollywood "insiderism," which conveys to the public not only news about stars and features, but also industry financial information, most notably the box office "numbers." Another key site shaping contemporary movie going, he argues, is the modern megaplex. Acland traces the history of the megaplex - characterized by its large auditoriums, large number of screens, and the activities it sold in addition to film spectatorship - from its genesis in the re-entry of studios into the movie exhibition business in 1986 through to 1998, when reports of the economic "failure" of the multiplex began to surface - just as the rise of digital technologies seemed to signal another wave of change in the movie industry.