Author Archives: Frederick Greene

About Frederick Greene

Entertainment Copywriter & Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA Dept. of Theater, Film & Television. I teach a graduate seminar in new movie marketing, which focuses on the history, contemporary practice and likely future of a/v advertising for motion picture entertainment.

Watching the Trailer, a research project that examines trailer audience uses, reactions and attitudes, has launched

Greetings Movie Trailers 101 readers and visitors. As habitues may kindly recall, I’ve been collaborating with fellow trailer scholars Dr. Keith Johnston and Dr. Ed Vollans of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, on a survey of movie trailer … Continue reading

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Q & A with an Argentinian Film Student

A couple of months ago, I received a request to respond to an online interview. Having reflected, responded and revised, I’m posting my answers to my interlocutor’s questions, hoping that they might prove salutary to other readers. Thanks to Mr. … Continue reading

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New “in-theater” Movie Marketing Guidelines from NATO: Shake up? Shake Down? Shake Out.

By now, you may have read about the new “In Theater Marketing Guidelines” promulgated by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO). In this post, I review and evaluate these Voluntary Recommendations for film distributors and film marketers. What was … Continue reading

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