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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- The New Hollywood -- PART I Industry matters -- 1 Hollywood blockbusters: historical dimensions -- 2 Following the money in America's sunniest company town: some notes on the political economy of the Hollywood blockbuster -- 3 The Hollywood blockbuster: industrial analysis and practice -- 4 The role of the auteur in the age of the blockbuster: Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks -- PART II Exploring spectacle -- 5 Talking about a revolution: the blockbuster as industrial advertisement -- 6 Spectacle, narrative, and the spectacular Hollywood blockbuster -- 7 "Want to take a ride?": reflections on the blockbuster experience in Contact (1997) -- 8 Blockbusting sound: the case of The Fugitive -- PART III Establishing cultural status -- 9 Circulations of taste: Titanic, the Oscars, and the middlebrow -- 10 Sex, controversy, box-office: from blockbuster to bonkbuster -- 11 Star Wars in fandom, film theory, and the museum: the cultural status of the cult blockbuster -- 12 The best place to see a film: the blockbuster, the multiplex, and the contexts of consumption -- 13 Neither one thing nor the other: blockbusters at film festivals -- PART IV The blockbuster in the international frame -- 14 "What's big about the big film?": "de-Westernizing" the blockbuster in Korea and China -- 15 Once Were Warriors: New Zealand's first indigenous blockbuster -- 16 Television for the big screen: how Comodines became Argentina's first blockbuster phenomenon -- 17 Locating Bollywood: notes on the Hindi blockbuster, 1975 to the present -- Index. |
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