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9780415256094

Movie Blockbusters

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415256094

  • ISBN10:

    0415256097

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2003-04-25
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to mass audience: is this what- or all- blockbusters are?Movie Blockbustersbrings together leading film scholars to consider this most high-profile and culturally significant genre. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives, the book traces how and why the "event movie" has played such a large role in the popular imagination, tracing a path from the spectacles of the silent era to the effects-laden mega-hits of the digital age. The contributors explain what the rise of the blockbuster says about the Hollywood film industry, address the work of notable blockbuster auteurs such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, discuss key movies such asJaws, The Jazz Singer, The Ten Commandments, Terminator 2andTitanic, and consider the various contexts in which blockbusters are produced, distributed, marketed and consumed. In addition, the book considers the movie scene outside Hollywood, discussing blockbusters made in Bollywood,China, South Korea, New Zealand and Argentina.

Table of Contents

List of figures
viii
List of contributors
ix
Introduction 1(14)
Julian Stringer
The New Hollywood 15(30)
Thomas Schatz
PART I Industry matters
45(54)
Hollywood blockbusters: historical dimensions
47(14)
Steve Neale
Following the money in America's sunniest company town: some notes on the political economy of the Hollywood blockbuster
61(11)
Jon Lewis
The Hollywood blockbuster: industrial analysis and practice
72(12)
Douglas Gomery
The role of the auteur in the age of the blockbuster: Steven Spielberg and Dream Works
84(15)
Warren Buckland
PART II Exploring spectacle
99(54)
Talking about a revolution: the blockbuster as industrial advertisement
101(13)
Michael Allen
Spectacle, narrative, and the spectacular Hollywood blockbuster
114(14)
Geoff King
``Want to take a ride?'': reflections on the blockbuster experience in Contact (1997)
128(13)
Peter Kramer
Blockbusting sound: the case of The Fugitive
141(12)
Gianluca Sergi
PART III Establishing cultural status
153(62)
Circulations of taste: Titanic, the Oscars, and the middlebrow
155(12)
Gillian Roberts
Sex, controversy, box-office: from blockbuster to bonkbuster
167(11)
Rebecca Feasey
Star Wars in fandom, film theory, and the museum: the cultural status of the cult blockbuster
178(12)
Matt Hills
The best place to see a film: the blockbuster, the multiplex, and the contexts of consumption
190(12)
Mark Jancovich
Lucy Faire
Neither one thing nor the other: blockbusters at film festivals
202(13)
Julian Stringer
PART IV The blockbuster in the international frame
215(54)
``What's big about the big film?'': ``de-Westernizing'' the blockbuster in Korea and China
217(13)
Chris Berry
Once Were Warriors: New Zealand's first indigenous blockbuster
230(12)
Kirsten Moana Thompson
Television for the big screen: how Comodines became Argentina's first blockbuster phenomenon
242(13)
Tamara L. Falicov
Locating Bollywood: notes on the Hindi blockbuster, 1975 to the present
255(14)
Andrew Willis
Index 269

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