American blockbuster : movies, technology, and wonder /

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"AMERICAN BLOCKBUSTER takes up the blockbuster film as a locus for understanding the relationship between popular entertainment and industry. Audiences, critics, and producers may take for granted what constitutes a blockbuster--entertainment, spectacle, technological innovation, high commercia...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Acland, Charles R., 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Sign, storage, transmission.
Subjects:
Cameron, James, > 1954-
1900-1999
Blockbusters (Motion pictures) > United States > History and criticism.
Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Mass media and culture > United States.
Superproductions > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Médias et culture > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Blockbusters (Motion pictures)
Mass media and culture.
Motion picture industry.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Blockbuster ballyhoo
  • Industrial regimes of entertainment
  • Delivering blockbusters
  • The business of big
  • Hollywood's return
  • Cosmopolitan artlessness
  • The end of James Cameron's Quiet Years
  • The technological heart of movie culture
  • Epilogue: Exhausted entertainment.

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