![]() n insightful and thought provoking analysis of the globalized and cross-marketed media landscape." - Leanne Downing, Screening the Past Screen Traffic provides a much needed amount of accelerated media culture at the end of the twentieth century. Acland's deliberate merging of popular culture, industry discourse and economic data mark Screen Traffic as a fascinating contribution to cinema theory. can be enjoyed simply as an account of the institution through the period." - John McCullough, Topia ![]() In its presentation of the history, the book. of the book is its evocative presentation of Global Hollywood as it relates to Canadian audiences and the recent history of attempts to capture this audience. Charles Acland's Screen Traffic deserves to reach a broad, international audience." - Ted Magder, Canadian Journal of Communication Rather than merely draw upon the work of other authors, Acland's book will itself become an inspiration to other authors." - 2004 Robinson Book Prize Committee Acland is to be commended for his innovative and engaging scholarship, which not only provides insight to the cultural practices and commercial realities of cinema culture, but also stands as an excellent resource for communication scholars interested in work on global products and the global audience. It begins from a current observable transformation of the film industry: moviegoing and megaplexes-to which it adds both policy reflection and cultural studies. " Screen Traffic is a creative blend of both fact and theory. Indeed, what's remarkable about this book is its relevance to-and resonance with-recent changes in other media industries, including book and music publishing." - Ted Striphas, Cultural Studies " Screen Traffic addresses the recent, fundamental shifts in cinema, yet it also is about nothing less than the spatial, temporal, and 'intermedial' reorganization of everyday life. “Ambitiously conceived, provocative and well written, Screen Traffic is a welcome addition to the literature on film culture and should become a reference point for all future discussions of filmgoing and globalization.” - Zoë Druick, Canadian Journal of Film Studies “ Screen Traffic is an exemplary investigation into the practice and spatiality of film spectatorship.… Screen Traffic contributes to globalization and cultural studies by making a strong case for the need to set film theory in a global context….” - James McDougall, Journal of Film and Video Documenting the current tendency toward an accelerated cinema culture, one that appears to arrive simultaneously for everyone, everywhere, Screen Traffic unearths and critiques the corporate and cultural forces contributing to the “felt internationalism” of our global era. ![]() He traces its genesis from the re-entry of studios into the movie exhibition business in 1986 through 1998, when reports of the economic destabilization of exhibition began to surface, just as the rise of so-called e-cinema signaled another wave of change. In particular, he dissects a key development: the rise of the megaplex, characterized by large auditoriums, plentiful screens, and consumer activities other than film viewing. Integrating film and cultural theory with close analysis of promotional materials, entertainment news, trade publications, and economic reports, Acland presents an array of evidence for the new understanding of movies and moviegoing that has developed within popular culture and the entertainment industry. Consequently, the cultural practice of moviegoing has changed significantly, as has the place of the cinema in relation to other sites of leisure. He shows how studios, in their increasing reliance on revenues from international audiences and from the ancillary markets of television, videotape, DVD, and pay-per-view, have cultivated an understanding of their commodities as mutating global products. commercial movie business has altered conceptions of moviegoing both within the industry and among audiences. Acland examines how, since the mid-1980s, the U.S. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.
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