Movie Blockbusters

Bigbudget spectacular films designed to appeal to mass audience is thiswhat or all blockbusters are? <strong>Movie Blockbusters</strong> brings together leading... » 

Bigbudget spectacular films designed to appeal to mass audience is thiswhat or all blockbusters are? Movie Blockbusters brings together leadingfilm scholars to consider this most highprofile and culturally significantgenre. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives the book traces how and whythe event movie has played such a large role in the popular imaginationtracing a path from the spectacles of the silent era to the effectsladen megahits of the digital age.The contributors explain what the rise of the blockbuster says about theHollywood film industry address the work of notable blockbuster auteurs suchas Steven Spielberg and James Cameron discuss key movies such as Jaws TheJazz Singer The Ten Commandments Terminator 2 and Titanic and considerthe various contexts in which blockbusters are produced distributed marketedand consumed. In addition the book considers the movie scene outsideHollywood discussing blockbusters made in Bollywood China South Korea NewZealand and Argentina. «