Popcorn cinema
The term popcorn cinema or popcorn film is used to describe film production with little content and primarily entertainment. These can still have a professional implementation that is usual for cinema films , but focus on profitability, as is achieved in cinemas through additional income such as popcorn . Film evaluation agencies try to counteract poor productions with awards such as film ratings and financial incentives.
With this term, film critics make it clear that it is a film with an easily comprehensible plot and an easy-to-process topic. Sometimes they also use it to express what they consider to be the low meaning of the respective films. However, there is no direct correlation between the success of a film production and its classification as a popcorn cinema.
Word origin
Popcorn is cheap to make and can be sold at high margins. It is very popular in cinemas and represents the additional income that ensures the profitability of cinemas. The term popcorn cinema transfers the character that popcorn has for cinemas to the film: Little substance content is professionally processed in a film and primarily serves the profitability of the studio, publisher and brand.
meaning
The critical term popcorn cinema aims at the usual excesses, repetitions of stories in other locations, superficiality or, in general, a low norm-setting or time-enduring position. In addition, his intention is related to the no longer used word tabloid piece , which comes from the theater sector and from which the tabloid press and rainbow press for print media emerged as a critical term. In contrast to these, the term is used more diverse and selected and cannot be assigned to a genus or type of production per se. The use of the term popcorn cinema testifies to a more open interpretation of the value content and less harsh treatment of works that do not qualify for inclusion in a canon .
history
Successful film productions, as exemplified by World Masterpiece Theater, were mostly based on a literary work . Film studios have struggled to produce successful sequels and tell stories, so sequels faded or led to flop . Criticism of a professional implementation but a hopeless lack of substance is summarized as a popcorn cinema.
Film sequels were therefore often set up as direct-to-video productions. Pixar Animation Studios testifies to the successful transition to direct execution as a cinema film without a preceding literary work . Story problems with the TinkerBell series or the filming of video games at Ubisoft Motion Pictures also reveal existing difficulties.
Demarcation
The term fan service is also used to make it clear that no deep-frozen meaning that is apparent to an outsider belongs to the intention of a production . This is known to be announced in individual anime episodes, which often take place on the beach and do not contribute to the story . In a broader sense, every sequel and spin-off serves the fan service. So productions in the Star Wars universe can be assigned to the fan service and explained to outsiders. However, regardless of the fan service, popcorn cinema denotes a low substance content.
literature
- Vinzenz Hediger : Eating popcorn as an act to complete the synaesthetic experience of the cinema. Notes on a Deficit in Film Theory. In: montage / av . 10/2/2001, pp. 67-76. Stoking , ISSN 0942-4954 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ POPCORNKINO Synonym Dictionary • Another word for popcorn cinema. In: anders-wort-fuer.de. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ^ A b Neologism - Popcorn Cinema. In: kunst-worte.de. Dirk Koester, accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ↑ gross profit. In: Lexicon of film terms. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Popcorn Cinema. In: Lexicon of film terms. Accessed January 30, 2019 .