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- ISBN 9781399570534
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The world watches commercials. This volume explores this aesthetic and cultural presence, the intermedial relationship and phenomena of international broadcast commercials as film art. Whether sitting in front of a television set in Egypt, Belgium or Portugal, ‘surfing’ across streaming services in Hungary, the Philippines or Chile, or glancing at messages broadcast on electronic billboards in Japan, India, Germany or in movie theatres and television screens in the United States, the question remains relevant: what are we looking at?
Consuming Global Images: The International Television Commercial as Short Film addresses the theoretical, industrial and creative gap in the history and criticism of the international broadcast commercial in respective media cultures as it reads the advertisement as a short film.
Gary D. Rhodes is Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). He is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Robert Singer, Professor of Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center [ret]. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He is the ReFocus: American and International Film series co-editor for Edinburgh University Press. He has written and directed several independent short films and co-produced the animated film, Ulalume (2022). Among his more recent publications are Consuming Images: Film Art and the Television Commercial (EUP, 2020), co-authored with Gary Rhodes, and “A View from the Boardwalk: The W.P.A. New York City Guide and Coney Island Hypertext,” in Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers’ Project, ed. Sara Rutkowski, (2022).
