Spectacular narratives : Hollywood in the age of the blockbuster /
What makes today's Hollywood films so successful? Is it the sheer scale of special effects that gives films like "Jurassic Park" or "The Matrix" their mass audience appeal? Geoff King looks at the underexplored dynamic relationship between narrative and spectacle in contempo...
| Основен автор: | King, Geoff, 1960- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris Publishers,
2000.
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| Серия: |
Cinema and society.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=111541 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Spectacular narratives. |
| Резюме: |
What makes today's Hollywood films so successful? Is it the sheer scale of special effects that gives films like "Jurassic Park" or "The Matrix" their mass audience appeal? Geoff King looks at the underexplored dynamic relationship between narrative and spectacle in contemporary Hollywood cinema. He uses the myth of the American frontier against a range of Hollywood filmsand drawes examples from the digital-effects-based and virtual-reality spectacles, space fictions, action films, war epics and disaster films that now dominate cinema. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations. |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index. |
| ISBN: |
1417546751 9781417546756 9781860645723 1860645720 9781860645730 1860645739 |