Movie Blockbusters by Julian Stringer

By Julian Stringer

Big-budget, fabulous movies designed to entice a mass viewers: is that this what - or all - blockbusters are? Movie Blockbusters brings jointly writings from key movie students, together with Douglas Gomery, Peter Kramer, Jon Lewis and Steve Neale, to handle the paintings of extraordinary blockbuster auteurs equivalent to Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, speak about key video clips equivalent to Star Wars and Titanic, and look at the context within which blockbusters are produced and ate up, together with what the increase of the blockbuster says concerning the Hollywood movie undefined, how blockbusters are advertised and exhibited, and who is going to work out them. The booklet additionally considers the motion picture scene outdoor Hollywood, discussing blockbusters made in Bollywood, China, South Korea, New Zealand and Argentina

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