Films that Sell: Moving Pictures and Advertising

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While moving image advertising has been around us, everywhere, for at least a century, the topic has tended to be overlooked by cinema studies. This far-reaching new collection makes an incisive contribution to a new field of study, by exploring the history, theory and practice of moving image advertising, and emphasising the dynamic and lasting relationships between print, film, broadcasting and advertising cultures.In chapters written by an international ensemble of leading scholars and archivists, the book covers a variety of materials from pre-show advertising films to lantern slides and sponsored 'educations'. With case studies of advertising campaigns and archival collections from a range of different countries, and giving consideration to the problems that advertising materials pose for preservation and presentation, this rich and expansive text testifies to the need for a new approach to this burgeoning subject that looks beyond the mere study of promotional film.

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This wonderful collection is further proof of the transformative perspective introduced by carefully considering non-theatrical cinema. Exemplifying archival and scholarly cooperation, Films That Sell both adds to the cinema studies canon while also showing familiar films in a new light. -- University of Maryland * Oliver Gaycken *
An important contribution to 'useful' cinema studies and to the history of advertising in general, this book sells itself on first-rate scholarship and descriptions of archival sources that are sure to inspire further research. -- Uinversity of Toronto * Brian Jacobson *

Author Bio

Patrick Vonderau is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Nico de Klerk is an independent film researcher, archivist and curator. He is on the editorial board of The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.Bo Florin is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden..