American Blockbuster : Movies, Technology, and Wonder

Name: American Blockbuster
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478009504
Price: 4850 KES
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ISBN: 9781478009504

by Charles R. Acland

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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 400 Pages

Weight 588 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.80 x 2.80 cms

Product Classification: Film theory & criticism Film history, theory or criticism Popular culture Popular culture Communications 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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