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Genre, gender and interpretation of movie trailers an exploratory study

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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by C Moore, David Bednall, Stewart Adam
Commercial movies cost tens of millions to make. Because they are now released on thousands of screens simultaneously, movie trailers are a major and necessary method of intensively promoting movies before they disappear from cinemas forever. Yet there is a paucity of research about how potential audiences react to these trailers. This study aimed at exploring consumers’ interpretations of movie trailers. Nineteen in-depth interviews were the means of data collection, using nine trailers for yet to be released movies from the romance/drama, action, comedy and thriller categories. Genre provided a focus for exploring consumers’ interpretations of movie trailers. Evaluative judgments of movies came first as a result of the value of genre to the consumer and then as a result of content which conveyed the movie would be involving relative to past movie experiences. Interpretations about the target audience for a movie were also influenced by assumptions that genre preferences differ according to gender. The findings pose implications for the construction of movie trailers.

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124 - 130

Location

Fremantle, Western Australia

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  • Yes

Start date

2005-12-05

End date

2005-12-07

ISBN-13

9780646455464

ISBN-10

064645546X

Language

eng

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Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner.

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E1 Full written paper - refereed

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2005, ANZMAC

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S Purchase

Title of proceedings

ANZMAC 2005 : Broadening the boundaries, conference proceedings

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