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Films that sell : moving pictures and advertising / edited by Bo Florin, Nico de Klerk, and Patrick Vonderau

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Editor:
Florin, Bo 1961-  Search this
Klerk, Nico de  Search this
Vonderau, Patrick  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 324 pages : illstrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2016
Notes:
"BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan"
Contents:
Introduction: on advertising's relation to moving pictures / Patrick Vonderau -- Advertising and film: a topological approach / Yvonne Zimmermann -- International harvester, business screen and the history of advertising film / Gregory A. Waller -- Selling machines: film and its technologies at the New York World's Fair / Haidee Wasson -- Selling the motion picture to the fine de siecle American public / William Uricchio -- Early advertising and promotional films, 1893-1900: Edison motion pictures as a case study / Cahrles Musser -- Advertising and animation: from the invisible hand to attention management / Michael Cowan -- More than product advertising: animation, gasparcolor and Sorela's corporate design / Sema Colpan and Lydia Nsiah -- Dream-work: Pan Am's New Horizons in Holland / Nice de Klerk -- The Five Year Plan on display: Czechoslovakian film advertising / Lucy Cesalkova -- Advertising form, technological change and screen practices in the USA / William Boddy -- The best thing on TV: 1960s US television commercials / Cynthia B. Meyers -- The bear facts: commercial archaeology and the Sugar Bear campaign / Skip Elsheimer and Devin Orgeron -- Kim Novak and Morgan Stairways: thinking about the theory and history of the tie-in / Patrick Vonderau -- Coming soon! Lantern slide advertising in the archive / Robert Byrne -- The hidden film-maker / Dylan Cave -- Robin Hood and the furry bowlers: animators vs advertisers in early British television commercials / Jez Stewart -- Ahead of its showtime: the Packard Humanities Institute collection at the Academy Film Archive / Cassie Blake -- Parsing the archive of Rudolf Mayer film, Vienna, 1937-9 / Joachim Schatz -- The film group's cinema verite TV ads / Andy Uhrich -- The challenge of archiving commercials / Catherine Cormon -- The Geesink collection: slection criteria reconsidered / Leenke Ripmeester -- The Archivio Nazionale Cinema d'impresa collection: an overview / Arianna Turci
Summary:
This book explores the history, theory and practice of moving image advertising, and emphasizes the dynamic and lasting relationships between print, film, broadcasting and advertising cultures.
Topic:
Promotional films  Search this
Motion pictures in advertising  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1083994