| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Hollywood blockbusters : historical dimensions / Steve Neale -- Following the money in America's sunniest company town : some notes on the political economy of the Hollywood blockbuster / Jon Lewis -- The Hollywood blockbuster : industrial analysis and practice / Douglas Gomery -- The role of the auteur in the age of the blockbuster : Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks / Warren Buckland -- Talking about a revolution : the blockbuster as industrial advertisement / Michael Allen -- Spectacle, narrative, and the spectacular Hollywood blockbuster / Geoff King -- "Want to take a ride?" Reflections on the blockbuster experience in Contact (1997) / Peter Krämer -- Blockbusting sound : the case of The fugitive / Gianluca Sergi -- Circulations of taste : Titanic, the Oscars, and the middlebrow / Gillian Roberts -- Sex, controversy, box-office : from blockbuster to bonkbuster / Rebecca Feasey -- Star Wars in fandom, film theory, and the museum : the cultural status of the cult blockbuster / Matt Hills -- The best place to see a film : the blockbuster, the multiplex, and the contexts of consumption / Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire -- Neither one thing nor the other : blockbusters at film festivals / Julian Stringer -- "What's big about the big film?" "De-Westernizing" the blockbuster in Korea and China / Chris Berry -- Once were warriors : New Zealand's first indigenous blockbuster / Kirsten Moana Thompson -- Television for the big screen : how Comodines became Argentina's first blockbuster phenomenon / Tamara L. Falicov -- Locating Bollywood : notes on the Hindi blockbuster, 1975 to the present / Andrew Willis |
| Summary |
Bringing together writings from key film scholars, this book addresses the work of notable blockbuster auteurs such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron. It considers the contexts in which blockbusters are produced and what they say about Hollywood and the audience. The book also considers the movie scene outside America |
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Film industry |
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History |
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Overseas item |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Blockbusters (Motion pictures)
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Blockbusters (Motion pictures)
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Films.
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Filmindustrie.
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Cultuur.
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Economische aspecten.
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Performing Arts.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stringer, Julian, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9781136408212 |
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1136408215 |
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9781315012919 |
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131501291X |
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9781136408359 |
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1136408355 |
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9781136408281 |
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1136408282 |
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