JUMP CUT
A
REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
DVD marketing in the U.S. of Working Title's British romantic comedies:
Framing reception and
strategies of cultural appropriation
Pavel Skopal teaches at the department of Film and Audio-Visual Culture, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic. He is currently finishing a PhD thesis which examines the way Hollywood movies on DVDs try to address its audiences. His research and teaching interests are: contemporary Hollywood cinema – and its relation to European cinema; reception studies; history of film theories.
e-mail: skopal@phil.muni.cz
A f ew of the web pages related to the Jump Cut essay and/or to the topic of DVD:
http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/nusite.php
http://www.dvddemystified.com/
http://www.dvdreview.com/
http://www.widescreenreview.com/
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/
http://www.totaldvd.net/
http://www.dvdexclusive.com/
http://www.dvdinformation.com/
http://www.dvdfile.com/