Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to a mass audience: is this what - or all - blockbusters are? Movie Blockbusters brings together writings from key film scholars, including Douglas Gomery, Peter Kramer, Jon Lewis and Steve Neale, to address the work of notable blockbuster auteurs such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, discuss key movies such as Star Wars and Titanic, and consider the context in which blockbusters are produced and consumed, including what the rise of the blockbuster says about the Hollywood film industry, how blockbusters are marketed and exhibited, and who goes to see them. The book also considers the movie scene outside Hollywood, discussing blockbusters made in Bollywood, China, South Korea, New Zealand and Argentina
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Julian Stringer is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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Well-Written Anthology,
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Julian Stringer put toghether a well-writen, well-rounded anthology of different scholars discussing the varied aspects of the movie industry. I appreciated the section on the "movie event" blockbusters. Other sections or chapters of the book were just as strong.
My favourite chapter dealt with the New Zealand blockbuster _Once Were Warriors_. The author did a great job of placing how instrumental the movie was in getting people, especially aboriginal/indigenous/Maori peoples, to discuss the issue of domestic violence. Pop culture truly informed in this case in a positive manner. The audience for this book varies from a lay audience, anyone who reads Entertainment Weekly, Variety, or Premiere (now only online, I believe) would like this book, as would students/instructors in Communications, Sociology, Women's Studies, and Film programs. The book's tone isn't esoteric or jargon filled, but is well-written and well-researched.
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Many commentators give the impression that blockbusters are particular to or peculiarly characteristic of New Hollywood cinema - of Hollywood since the advent of Jaws (1975), Superman (1978), Star Trek-The Motion Picture (1979), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in the mid- to late 1970s and early 1980s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cult blockbuster, blockbuster experience, film rental champs, spectacular blockbuster, cultural discount, blockbuster status, blockbuster production, film consumption, theatrical revenues, giant film, review journalism, blockbuster mentality, movie blockbusters, promotional discourses, spectacular impact, digital special effects, middlebrow culture, ancillary markets, erotic thriller, event movies, cinema technology, big film, sound team, fan culture, popular cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Star Wars, New Zealand, New York, Basic Instinct, The Fugitive, Jurassic Park, Academy Awards, London Film Festival, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, United States, Warner Bros, Korea Herald, Big Six, British Film Institute, South Korea, Steve Neale, The Phantom Menace, China Film, Forrest Gump, Independence Day, James Cameron, Judgment Day, Los Angeles, The Robe New!
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Many commentators give the impression that blockbusters are particular to or peculiarly characteristic of New Hollywood cinema - of Hollywood since the advent of Jaws (1975), Superman (1978), Star Trek-The Motion Picture (1979), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in the mid- to late 1970s and early 1980s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cult blockbuster, blockbuster experience, film rental champs, spectacular blockbuster, cultural discount, blockbuster status, blockbuster production, film consumption, theatrical revenues, giant film, review journalism, blockbuster mentality, movie blockbusters, promotional discourses, spectacular impact, digital special effects, middlebrow culture, ancillary markets, erotic thriller, event movies, cinema technology, big film, sound team, fan culture, popular cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Star Wars, New Zealand, New York, Basic Instinct, The Fugitive, Jurassic Park, Academy Awards, London Film Festival, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, United States, Warner Bros, Korea Herald, Big Six, British Film Institute, South Korea, Steve Neale, The Phantom Menace, China Film, Forrest Gump, Independence Day, James Cameron, Judgment Day, Los Angeles, The Robe New!
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- Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas on 10 pages
- Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by Steve Neale on 8 pages
- Film Theory Goes to the Movies (AFI Film Readers) by Jim Collins on 7 pages
- Star Wars Visionaries by Warren Fu on 5 pages
- Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster (Cinema and Society) by Geoff King on 5 pages
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- Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home by Barbara Klinger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts by David Martin-Jones on page 221, and Back Matter
- The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies by David Bordwell in Back Matter
- Movie Blockbusters by Julian Stringer in Front Matter
- Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession by Dade Hayes in Back Matter
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