Acland American Blockbuster

Movies, Technology, and Wonder
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1216-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Reihe: Sign, Storage, Transmission

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acland, Charles R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.