UID:
almafu_9959674041002883
Format:
1 online resource (400 p.)
ISBN:
9781478012160
Series Statement:
Sign, Storage, Transmission
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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ONE. Blockbuster Ballyhoo --
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TWO. Industrial Regimes of Entertainment --
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THREE. Delivering Blockbusters --
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FOUR. The Business of Big --
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FIVE. Hollywood’s Return --
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SIX. Cosmopolitan Artlessness --
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SEVEN. The End of James Cameron’s Quiet Years --
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EIGHT. The Technological Heart of Movie Culture --
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EPILOGUE. Exhausted Entertainment --
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Notes --
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Filmography --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012160
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012160
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012160
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012160
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012160
