Publications

Publication details [#58216]

Fu, W. Wayne. 2013. National Audience Tastes in Hollywood Film Genres: Cultural Distance and Linguistic Affinity. Communication Research 40 (6) : 789–817.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accepting | audience | culture | film | genre

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of national audience tastes in Hollywood films quantifies the disparities in genre predilection between the US and importing countries, drawing on 2002-2007 box-office sales. The disparities are positively linked to cultural distance and negatively to English proficiency.