Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures

Advertising Has Played A Central Role In Shaping The History Of Modern Media. While Often Identified With American Consumerism And The Rise Of The 'information Society', Motion Picture Advertising Has Been Part Of European Visual Culture Since The Late Nineteenth Century. With The Global Spread Of Ad Agencies, Moving Image Advertisements Became A Privileged Cultural Form To Make People Experience The Qualities And Uses Of Branded Commodities, To Articulate Visions Of A 'good Life', And To Incite Social Relationships. Abandoning A Conventional Delineation Of Fields By Medium, Country, Or Period, This Book Suggests A Lateral View. It Charts The Audiovisual History Of Advertising By Focussing On Objects (products And Services), Screens (exhibition, Programming, Physical Media), Practices (production, Marketing), And Intermediaries (ad Agencies). In This Way, The Book Develops New Historical, Methodological, And Theoretical Perspectives. Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Early Cinema, Process Films, And Screen Advertising -- Part I Approaches And Methods -- 2. Advertising And Modernity: A Critical Reassessment -- 3. Advertising And Avant-gardes: A History Of Concepts, 1930-1940 -- 4. Advertising As Institution: Charles Wilp And German Television, 1950- 1970 -- 5. Advertising And The Apparatus : Cinema, Television, And Out-of-home Screens -- 6. Advertising As Commercial Speech: Truth And Trademarks In Testimonial Advertising -- 7. Advertising's Self-reference: From Early Cinema To The Super Bowl -- Part Ii Cases And Materials -- 8. Moving Objects: The Case Of Volvo -- 9. Cinematic Intertexts: H&m Goes Youtube -- 10. Beyond Promotion: The Un Global Goal Campaign -- Select Bibliography -- Index Yvonne Zimmermann, Bo Florin, Patrick Vonderau. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.