DVDs Were the Ideal Marketing Tool for Filmmakers

Keya Shirali
4 min readApr 25, 2020
A Criterion DVD of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940)

This article refers to the Criterion DVD of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) to explore and explain the merits of marketing a movie through the various features available in DVDs.

a) Marketability extends to beyond just the director — it could potentially apply to the actors, technicians, and academics that were significantly involved in the production of the film too.

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Keya Shirali

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