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100 Years of Movie Trailers: What More Could an Audience Want?

Boy do we have an exciting post today! The following MP3 file is from my recent talk at New York University’s Department of Cinema Studies, at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City on October 19th, 2011. … Continue reading

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THE FIRST TRAILERS: SERIES & SERIALS

You would think that from the birth of filmmaking and film projection, trailers would have emerged as an essential mode of marketing, advertising and promotion. Instead, it took 18 years from Edison’s triumph to the first rudimentary and barely recognizable … Continue reading

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