Genre trends at the US box office, 1991 to 2010

Redfern, Nick

doi:10.1386/ejac.31.2.145_1

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“…By doing so, a more simple and clear structure of the information will be achieved, even though certain data has to be disregarded. This will lead to a much clearer representation of data into a lower representational space (Redfern, 2012). One can define the mass of a data point which represents the ratio between the data point total and the total sample size and the quality of a data point indicates how well the data point is represented by the graph.…”

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“…One can define the mass of a data point which represents the ratio between the data point total and the total sample size and the quality of a data point indicates how well the data point is represented by the graph. The quality of the data points is connected to how well the extracted variables represent it and is characterized by a number which ranges from 0 (completely unrepresentative) to 1 (completely representative) (Redfern, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Smoking as a bad habit: a behavioral economics perspective

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Grădinaru

Coşer

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Statistics

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Tobacco consumption is a problem of both health and economic interest nowadays. According to recent studies conducted by the European Commission approximate 700,000 deaths per year are caused by smoking. For this reason, the European Commission frequently conducts a survey in order to monitor the attitude towards tobacco addiction. Smoking addiction changes due to different factors such as budget, time or entourage. The evolution in time of these factors and the consumers’ preferences is studied using behavioral economics based on a small group of respondents. Through a survey, over 500 persons were asked to choose their preference for cigarettes characteristics. We employ correspondence analysis using combinations of age, type of cigarette, number of cigarettes smoked per day and nicotine concertation to see the type of responses the consumers’ have according to their habit. Moreover, we made a 5 persons selection from the initial group and we observed their behavior for 9 months period of time. The consumers were asked to classify a set of packages according to their preferences and we applied conjoint analysis in order to determine how or if the initial preferences change. Furthermore, we explain the changes in behavior by taking into account the nowadays global impetus towards a healthier lifestyle. The results provided allow to emphasize the role of a strong analysis for each single target consumer’s behavior as this is one of the main roles of Behavioral Economics.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smoking as a bad habit: a behavioral economics perspective

Ștefăneţ

Grădinaru

Coşer

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Statistics

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“…Hennig-Thurau et al (2001) refer to a genre as a film trait that consumers try to evaluate without having seen the movie. According to Redfern (2012), “Genres are relatively stable sets of cultural schemas […] that render individual films, and the elements within them, explicable to audiences (Neale, 2000)”. The consistency within a genre allows the viewers to be familiar with the rules determining a genre to infer motifs with regards to contents and structures, without having to watch the movie in advance.…”

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“…Titles, casts, directors, genres, synopses and reviews are often presented. In light of their influence on movie consumption, research has extensively examined the role of stars and directors (Liu et al , 2013), genres (Redfern, 2012) and reviews (Moon et al , 2010). However, little research has investigated whether synopses have an impact on a movie’s box office performance.…”

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Winning box office with the right movie synopsis

Hung

Guan

2020

EJM

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Purpose Consumers often search for movie information and purchase tickets on the go. A synopsis is often provided by producers and theatres in mobile apps and websites. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, little research has investigated whether the synopsis has an impact on a movie’s box office. This research uses computerized text analysis in examining the influence of linguistic cues of a synopsis on the movie’s financial performance. This paper aims to show that language choice in a synopsis is a significant factor in predicting box office performance. Design/methodology/approach A total usable sample of 5973 movies was collected using a web crawler. Computerised text analysis using linguistic inquiry and word count was adopted to analyse the movie synopses data. The empirical study comprises two phases. Phase 1 used exploratory factor analysis on 50 per cent of the sample (Sample 1) to establish the dimensionality of psychological processes as reflected in the linguistic expressions. The analysis identified 11 linguistic variables that loaded on four dimensions. The factor structure was replicated on an independent sample (Sample 2) using confirmatory factor analysis. Phase 2 tested the hypotheses using structure equation modelling. Findings Results show that consistency between movie genres and linguistic cues in a film synopsis promotes movie box office revenue when linguistic cues shown in the synopsis confirm a consumer’s expectancies about a focal movie genre. Conversely, a synopsis reduces the movie box office revenue when the linguistic cues shown disconfirm the genre-based expectancies. These linguistic cues exert similar effects on action and crime films but different effects on comedies and drama films. Research limitations/implications It is likely that consumer tastes and linguistic styles of film synopses have evolved over time. As a cross-sectional study, such changes were not taken into consideration in the current research. A longitudinal study in the future can reveal the dynamic relationship between film synopses and audience. Practical implications Managerially, the findings show that a synopsis is an effective communication touch point to position a movie. This research provides concrete guidelines in crafting synopses with the “rights words’ aligned with movie-goers’ expectations within each specific genre. Beyond movie consumption, the research findings can be applied to other entertainment products, such as TV series and books. Originality/value To our knowledge, this research is the first in studying the linguistic cues in synopses and its relation to box office performance. It addresses this knowledge gap by answering the basic question of whether movie synopses matter. Methodically, the paper marks the first attempt to use the two-step structural equation modelling method on computerised content analysis data.

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“…In addition modern technological advances facilitate more complex productions in terms of visual and special effects as well as shooting locations and techniques. Trends over time in movie content (Redfern, 2012) could potentially be explained by technological advances, which favor pro tability of certain types over others (Ji & Waterman, 2010). However, this may also be translating into content complexity, by including more content categories.…”

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Online voting behaviour, public content preferences, and content complexity of movies and digital entertainment since the late 19th century

Moustakas

Firdaus

2021

Preprint

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Analysis of cinema and electronic art contents into quantifiable characteristics could provide insights on important elements of human behaviour such as voting behaviour, appreciation, and emotions regarding content. Analysis of movies, series, TV programs, and video games, were performed mining the IMBD database and merging datasets. Data analytics were performed including the relationship between the number of votes and rating, rating and content as timeseries, and multivariate statistical analysis between content and rating as well as production type and rating. Content complexity (i.e. the number of different genre) was also analyzed regarding rating. Results indicated that there is an overall positive relationship between the number of votes and rating for low, intermediate, and high number of votes, while very high number of votes is related with a partisan voting behaviour resulting in negative rating. Adult rated content is declining over the past three decades. Violent content is expressed via other forms of content through time, switching from war to horror. Diversity of content was the highest rated content type linked with diversity and complexity of feelings and emotions. Among all production types, video games were the highest rated ones related with integrative social behaviour with other users or addiction.

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Genre trends at the US box office, 1991 to 2010

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Smoking as a bad habit: a behavioral economics perspective

Smoking as a bad habit: a behavioral economics perspective

Winning box office with the right movie synopsis

Online voting behaviour, public content preferences, and content complexity of movies and digital entertainment since the late 19th century

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