Title Profit margins : the American silent cinema and the marginalization of advertising / Jeremy Groskopf

Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Advertising Looks at Cinema -- The Front Cover Medium: Lantern Slides, Temporality, and the Commercial Break -- Screen Sugar Pills: The Advertising Trailer and the Commercialized Intermission -- Watch This Space: Peripheral Advertising Through Technologies -- The Cinema Wants to Be Free: Parks, Tickets, and Advertiser-Funded Cinema -- Conclusion: Intemperate Proclamations Summary "Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media. In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advertisers, who recognized the import of film audiences, fought exhibitors over what audiences expected in a theater outing. Looking back at these debates in four case studies, Groskopf reveals that advertising became a marker of class distinctions in the cinema experience as the film industry pushed out advertisers in order to create a space free of ads. By restricting advertising, especially during the rise of high-class, palatial theaters, the film industry continued its ongoing effort to ascend the cultural hierarchy of the arts. An important read for film studies and the history of marketing, Profit Margins exposes the fascinating truth surrounding the invention of cinema advertising techniques and the resulting rhetoric of class division"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2021) Subject Motion pictures in advertising -- United States -- History Silent films -- United States -- History Advertising -- United States -- History Social classes -- United States -- History Market segmentation -- United States -- History Motion pictures in advertising -- History PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism Advertising Market segmentation Motion pictures in advertising Silent films Social classes United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021034406 ISBN 0253059364 9780253059376 0253059372 9780253059369

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