It's HBO: Passionate engagement,TV branding,and tourism in the postbroadcast Era |
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| Authors: | Helen Morgan Parmett |
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| Institution: | Western Washington University, 516 High St., MS 9162, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper contends with how postbroadcast television branding subsumes viewers’ affective interactivities with place to produce brand value. Focusing on the HBO series Treme, I argue that Treme engendered HBO's postbroadcast brand mutation by producing “passionate engagement,” where viewers were invited to interact with the show by touring New Orleans, thus adding place to online interactivity and multiscreen engagement as a means of constructing an “authentic” brand identity. The desire for viewers to connect to New Orleans’ culture is thus transformed into a vehicle for profit making for HBO and an assurance to shareholders that the brand still holds value. |
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| Keywords: | Postbroadcast television branding interactivity Passionate engagement tourism |
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