Acland Charles R. Acland

American Blockbuster (eBook, PDF)

Movies, Technology, and Wonder

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Produktbeschreibung

Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In American Blockbuster Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of this most visible, entertaining, and disparaged cultural form. Acland narrates how blockbusters emerged from Hollywood's turn to a hit-driven focus during the industry's business crisis in the 1950s. Movies became bigger, louder, and more spectacular. They also became prototypes for ideas and commodities associated with the future of technology and culture, accelerating the prominence of technological innovation in modern American life. Acland shows that blockbusters continue to be more than just movies; they are industrial strategies and complex cultural machines designed to normalize the ideologies of our technological age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012160
• Artikelnr.: 66282443

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