Dossier: Screen Advertising. Introduction

The purpose of this dossier is to ask, “What is screen advertising and what relevance, if any, does it have for film and television studies?” Both are large and complex questions, but the second is perhaps the bolder and, therefore, a question that will remain unanswered. It invokes a larger convers...

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Main Author: Emily Caston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2023-08-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
Online Access:https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue25/HTML/DossierIntroduction.html
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description The purpose of this dossier is to ask, “What is screen advertising and what relevance, if any, does it have for film and television studies?” Both are large and complex questions, but the second is perhaps the bolder and, therefore, a question that will remain unanswered. It invokes a larger conversation about the nature of film studies in the academy since it emerged within the paradigm of literary studies in Britain and the USA in the 1970s. To answer these questions, the dossier presents interviews with three influential figures from screen advertising production, two reports about advertising archives and an article about the industry in Britain since 1955.
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