Confessions of a Movie-Fan: Introspection into a Consumer’s Experiential Consumption of ‘Pride & Prejudice'

Markus Wohlfeil, Susan Whelan

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Abstract

As people enjoy movies for various reasons, this paper is taking an existential-phenomenological perspective to discuss the
consumption of movies as a holistic personal lived experience. By using subjective personal introspection, the author provides hereby insights into his personal lived consumption experiences with the recently released movie Pride & Prejudice. Although the introspective data suggest that a complex tapestry of interconnected factors contributes to a consumer’s movie enjoyment, this study found a consumer’s personal engagement with the movie narrative and its characters to be of particular importance. This personal engagement not only allows for a momentary escape from reality into the imaginative movie world, but is even further enhanced through intertextuality, by which the consumer connects the movie to one’s personal life experiences.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event8th European Conference of the Association for Consumer Research - Bocconi University Milan, Milan, Italy
Duration: 10 Jul 200714 Jul 2007

Conference

Conference8th European Conference of the Association for Consumer Research
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityMilan
Period10/07/0714/07/07

Keywords

  • film consumption
  • movie consumption
  • experiential consumption
  • Narrative transportation theory
  • movie enjoyment
  • autoethnography
  • introspection
  • introspective research

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