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This diverse collection draws on insights from renowned film academics and leading industry professionals to provide a comprehensive overview of film marketing in multiple global contexts. Straddling practical and theoretical considerations, the book explores modern film marketing, its evolution, and the key issues at stake in a global era.

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How do you sell British humour to a French audience? Could piracy actually be good for the film business? Why are The Hobbit´s revolutionary technologies not mentioned in some adverts? Exploring these questions and many more, Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century draws on insights from renowned film academics and leading industry professionals to chart the evolution of modern film marketing.

The first part of the book focuses on geographical considerations, showing how marketers have to adapt their strategies locally as films travel across borders. The second covers new marketing possibilities offered by the Internet, as Vine, Facebook and other participative websites open new venues for big distributors and independents alike. Straddling practical and theoretical concerns and including case studies that take us from Nollywood to Peru, this book provides an accessible introduction to the key issues at stake for film marketing in a global era.

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Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Foreword; Janet Wasko.- Introduction; Nolwenn Mingant, Cecilia Tirtaine and Joel Augros.- 1. ´My job is to find the right signals at the right moment for the right people´: An interview with Benoît Mely; Laurent Creton and Nolwenn Mingant.- PART I: MARKETING AND FILM CULTURE.- 2. ´There is no one-shape-fits-all for film´: An interview with Michael Williams-Jones; Nolwenn Mingant.- 3. Tom Cruise and Burj Khalifa, or How Hollywood Marketing Shapes Film Production; Nolwenn Mingant.- 4. ´My Big Fat Life In Ruins´: US Indie Films and the Marketing of ´Greekness´; Lydia Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis.- 5. Carry On Laughing: Selling English Humour in France; Cecilia Tirtaine and Jo‰l Augros.- 6. Dubbing and Marketing in the Ice Age series: A case study by Nolwenn Mingant.- 7. Hollywood in China: Continuities and Disjunctures in Film Marketing; Michael Curtin, Wesley Jacks, Yongli Li.- 8. Film Marketing in Nollywood: A case study by Alessandro Jedlowski.- 9. Marketing High Frame Rate in The Hobbit trilogy: A Spectacular Case of Promoting and Un-promoting New Cinema Technology; Miriam Ross.- 10. Niche Marketing in Peru: An Interview with Claudia Zavaleta; Nolwenn Mingant.- PART II: MARKETING FOR AND BY THE CONSUMER.- 11. Leaked Information and Rumours: The Buz Effect: A case study by Jo‰l Augros.- 12. Brave New Films, Brave New Ways: The Internet and the Future of Low-to-no Budget Film Distribution and Marketing; Hayley Trowbridge.- 13. Between Storytelling and Marketing: SocialSamba: An Interview with Aaron Williams; Nolwenn Mingant.- 14. Promoting in Six Seconds: New Advertising Strategies Using Video Social Network Vine: A case study by Javier Lozano Delmar and José Antonio Mu¤iz.- 15. Piracy and Promotion: Understanding the Double-Edged Power of Crowds; Ramon Lobato.- 16. Marketing Bait (2012): Using SMART Data to Identify E-guanxi Among China´s ´Internet Aborigines´ ; Brian Yecies, Jie Yang, Matthew Berryman and Kai Soh.- 17. From Marketing to Performing the Market: The Emerging Role of Digital Data; Michael Franklin, Dimitrinka Stoyanova Russell and Barbara Townley.- POSTSCRIPT: THE INVISIBLE SIDE OF BUSINESS: B-TO-B MARKETING.- 18. Marketing the ´Avatar Revolution´, or How to Sell Digital Technology to Exhibitors; Kira Kitsopanidou.- 19. ´It´s Africa. It´s Arizona. It´s Antarctica. It´s Afghanistan. Actually, it´s Alberta´: Marketing Locations to Film Producers; Ben Goldsmith.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

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