Movie Blockbusters 1st Edition by Julian Stringer 9780415256087 0415256089

1 Industry Matters

1 Hollywood Blockbusters Historical dimensions

Notes

References

2 Following the Money in America’s Sunniest Company Town Some notes on the political economy of the Hollywood blockbuster

Notes

References

3 The Hollywood Blockbuster Industrial analysis and practice

The big bang: the blockbuster’s origins

Why Universal?

The effects of what Wasserman wrought

The new markets

Auteurs and risk

The blockbuster’s future

A bibliographic essay

4 The Role of the Auteur in the Age of the Blockbuster Steven Spielberg and Dream Works

Steven Spielberg and Benjamin Franklin, Francis Coppola, and Mark Twain

Deal-making and the blockbuster

Spielberg’s authorship

DreamWorks and vertical integration

Notes

References

2 Exploring Spectacle

5 Talking About a Revolution The blockbuster as industrial advertisement

Industry players

Specific strategies

Stars, blockbusters, and technology

Spectacle and narrative

References and bibliography

6 Spectacle, Narrative, and the Spectacular Hollywood Blockbuster

Spectacle: from large-screen vista to (large and small-screen) montage-impact

Narrative still matters

Notes

References

7 “Want to Take a Ride?” Reflections on the blockbuster experience in Contact (1997)

The making of a blockbuster

An intellectual blockbuster

Conclusion

Notes

References

8 Blockbusting Sound The case of The Fugitive

“Making more of it”: The Fugitive as the sound blockbuster

Maintaining space: sound and narrative space

Sound in blockbusters: a different “category of sound”?

Notes

Reference

3 Establishing Cultural Status

9 Circulations of Taste Titanic, the Oscars, and the middlebrow

Note

References

10 Sex, Controversy, Box-Office From blockbuster to bonkbuster

Notes

References

11 Star Wars in Fandom, Film Theory, and the Museum The cultural status of the cult blockbuster

References

12 The Best Place to See a Film The blockbuster, the multiplex, and the contexts of consumption

Selling the multiplex

The meanings of the multiplex

Conclusion

Notes

References

13 Neither One Thing Nor the Other Blockbusters at film festivals

References

4 The Blockbuster in the International Frame

14 “What’s Big About the Big Film?” “De-Westernizing” the blockbuster in Korea and China

Notes

References

15 Once Were Warriors New Zealand’s first indigenous blockbuster

Notes

References and bibliography

16 Television for the Big Screen How Comodines became Argentina’s first blockbuster phenomenon

Introduction: antecedents to the blockbuster era in Argentina

The rise of the Argentine blockbuster

Television–film integration in Argentina

The creators of Comodines

All the world’s an ad – the case of Comodines

The rise of multiplex cinemas

“Glocal” spaces?

Conclusion

Notes

References

17 Locating Bollywood Notes on the Hindi blockbuster, 1975 to the present

The formula of the Hindi blockbuster

Amitabh Bachchan: the superstar

The 1990s: recent trends and diasporic audiences

References and bibliography

Index