Charles R Acland

American Blockbuster

Movies, Technology, and Wonder

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Produktbeschreibung

Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of the blockbuster, showing how it became a complex economic and cultural machine designed to advance popular support for technological advances.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781478008576
• ISBN-10: 1478008571
• Artikelnr.: 58024444

Autorenporträt

Charles R. Acland is Distinguished University Research Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence and Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture, and coeditor of Useful Cinema, all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Part I. The Spectacle Industry
1. Blockbuster Ballyhoo  3
2. Industrial Regimes of Entertainment  35
Part II. The Rise of the Blockbuster
3. Delivering Blockbusters  87
4. The Business of Big  124
5. Hollywood's Return  160
6. Cosmopolitan Artlessness  191
Part III. The Technological Sublime of Entertainment Everywhere
7. The End of James Cameron's Quiet Years  233
8. The Technological Heart of Movie Culture  266
Epilogue. Exhausted Entertainment  296
Notes  305
Filmography  337
Bibliography  347
Index