Coming Attractions : : Reading American Movie Trailers / / Lisa Kernan.
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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Film and Media Studies Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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