Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series) Book

This title considers the history of the American blockbuster - the large-scale, high-cost film - as it evolved from the 1890s to today. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. In ""Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History"", authors Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. Moving chronologically, the authors examine the roots of today's blockbuster in the 'feature', 'special', 'superspecial', 'roadshow', 'epic', and 'spectacle' of earlier eras, with … read more...
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