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Selling the Silver Bullet

The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing

Avi Santo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

331 Seiten

2015
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-77253-3 (ISBN)

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Originating as a radio series in 1933, the Lone Ranger is a cross-media star who has appeared in comic strips, comic books, adult and juvenile novels, feature films and serials, clothing, games, toys, home furnishings, and many other consumer products. In his prime, he rivaled Mickey Mouse as one of the most successfully licensed and merchandised children's properties in the United States, while in more recent decades, the Lone Ranger has struggled to resonate with consumers, leading to efforts to rebrand the property. The Lone Ranger's eighty-year history as a lifestyle brand thus offers a perfect case study of how the fields of licensing, merchandizing, and brand management have operated within shifting industrial and sociohistorical conditions that continue to redefine how the business of entertainment functions.

Deciphering how iconic characters gain and retain their status as cultural commodities, Selling the Silver Bullet focuses on the work done by peripheral consumer product and licensing divisions in selectively extending the characters' reach and in cultivating investment in these characters among potential stakeholders. Tracing the Lone Ranger's decades-long career as intellectual property allows Avi Santo to analyze the mechanisms that drive contemporary character licensing and entertainment brand management practices, while at the same time situating the licensing field's development within particular sociohistorical and industrial contexts. He also offers a nuanced assessment of the ways that character licensing firms and consumer product divisions have responded to changing cultural and economic conditions over the past eighty years, which will alter perceptions about the creative and managerial authority these ancillary units wield.

Avi Santo is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Old Dominion University. He is the coeditor of Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Hi-Yo Licensing

Chapter 2: Putting on the Mask: Character Licensing before the Lone Ranger

Chapter 3: Building the Franchise One Market at a Time: The Lone Ranger's Extra-textual Career in the Late 1930s

Chapter 4: The Lone Ranger and the Law: The Construction of Corporate Authorship

Chapter 5: Containing the Ranger: Postwar Cultural (Re)Branding and the Industrial Logics of Containment

Chapter 6: Managing a Legend: The Troubled Career of the Lone Ranger as Heritage Brand

Chapter 7: The Lone Ranger and the Mouse House Together at Last? New Twenty-First-Century Partnerships in the Licensing Biz

Chapter 8: Parting Shots

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	Texas Film and Media Studies Series
Zusatzinfo	49 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	595 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
ISBN-10	0-292-77253-X / 029277253X
ISBN-13	978-0-292-77253-3 / 9780292772533
Zustand	Neuware