Moviegoers’ response to product placement: a mise-en-scene analysis

Nappolini, Marco and Hackley, Chris

(2008)

Nappolini, Marco and Hackley, Chris (2008) Moviegoers’ response to product placement: a mise-en-scene analysis.

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Abstract

Product placement is a form of marketing promotion which is attracting increasing attention from practitioners and academic researchers. To date, most management research in the field has conceptualized product placement in terms of information exposure which accesses semantic memory, ignoring the media context of dramatic entertainment and its potential influence on the meanings of the brand. This paper offers a new conceptualization of product placement as dramatic entertainment. It takes a holistic approach, adapting a mise-en-scene analytical framework from film theory to draw out the potential meanings of the brand within the movie context. The implications for marketing research practice and for interpretive marketing theory are discussed.

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Item TypeMonograph (Working Paper)
TitleMoviegoers’ response to product placement: a mise-en-scene analysis
AuthorsNappolini, Marco
Hackley, Chris
Uncontrolled KeywordsProduct placement; brand placement; entertainment marketing; mise-en-scene; film theory
DepartmentsFaculty of History and Social Science\Management

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doi978-1-905846-17-7

Deposited by () on 23-Dec-2009 in Royal Holloway Research Online.Last modified on 14-Apr-2011

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School of Management Working Paper SoMWP0802
ISBN: 978-1-905846-17-7

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