Spectacular narratives : Hollywood in the age of the blockbuster /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris Publishers,
2000.
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| Series: | Cinema and society
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=111541 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: spectacle, narrative and 'frontier' mythology
- 'Frontier' narrative and spectacle in Twister and Independence day
- Digital dinosaurs: from T-Rex to Titanic
- The final frontier: space fictions
- Maximum impact: action films
- Seriously spectacular: 'authenticity' and 'art' in the war epic
- Apocalypse, maybe: pre-millennial disaster movies
- Conclusion: into the spectacle?