American Blockbuster : Movies, Technology, and Wonder
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Sign, Storage, Transmission
ISBN-10
1478009500
ISBN-13
9781478009504
Publisher
Duke University Press
Imprint
Duke University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 14th, 2020
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
588 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismPopular cultureCommunications engineering / telecommunications
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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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