Hollywood Goes Shopping
Download or Read eBook Hollywood Goes Shopping PDF written by David Desser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : David Desser |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0816635137 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780816635139 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Hollywood Goes Shopping by : David Desser
Book excerpt: Aggressive product placement and retail tie-ins are as much a part of moviemaking today as high-concept scripts and computer-generated special effects, but this phenomenon is hardly recent. Since the silent era, Hollywood studios have proved remarkably adept at advertising both their own products and a bewildering variety of consumer commodities, successfully promoting the idea of consumption itself. Hollywood Goes Shopping brings together leading film studies scholars to explore the complex and sometimes contradictory relationship between American cinema and consumer culture, providing an innovative reading of both film history and the evolution of consumerism in the twentieth century.
