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Blockbusters

Anita Elberse
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Author : Anita Elberse
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781429945325

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Why the future of popular culture will revolve around ever bigger bets on entertainment products, by one of Harvard Business School's most popular professors What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Entertainment, and the NFL—along with such stars as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? Anita Elberse, Harvard Business School's expert on the entertainment industry, has done pioneering research on the worlds of media and sports for more than a decade. Now, in this groundbreaking book, she explains a powerful truth about the fiercely competitive world of entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products—the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market—is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, she reveals why entertainment executives often spend outrageous amounts of money in search of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories emerging from Elberse's unprecedented access to some of the world's most successful entertainment brands, Blockbusters is destined to become required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the entertainment industry really works—and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large.

Movie Blockbusters

Julian Stringer
Movie Blockbusters Book PDF

Author : Julian Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136408212

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Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to a mass audience: is this what - or all - blockbusters are? Movie Blockbusters brings together writings from key film scholars, including Douglas Gomery, Peter Kramer, Jon Lewis and Steve Neale, to address the work of notable blockbuster auteurs such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, discuss key movies such as Star Wars and Titanic, and consider the context in which blockbusters are produced and consumed, including what the rise of the blockbuster says about the Hollywood film industry, how blockbusters are marketed and exhibited, and who goes to see them. The book also considers the movie scene outside Hollywood, discussing blockbusters made in Bollywood, China, South Korea, New Zealand and Argentina

Blockbusters

Anita Elberse
Blockbusters Book PDF

Author : Anita Elberse
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571281343

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Blockbusters by Anita Elberse Pdf

What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United - along with such stars as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? Anita Elberse, Harvard Business School's expert on the entertainment industry, has done pioneering research on the worlds of media and sports for more than a decade. Now, in this groundbreaking book, she explains a powerful truth about the fiercely competitive world of entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products - the movies, television shows, songs and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market - is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, she reveals why entertainment executives often spend outrageous amounts of money in search of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories emerging from her unprecedented access to some of the world's most successful entertainment brands, Blockbusters is destined to become required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the entertainment industry really works - and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. 'Convincing . . . Elberse's Blockbusters builds on her already impressive academic résumé to create an accessible and entertaining book.' Financial Times

French Blockbusters

Charlie Michael
French Blockbusters Book PDF

Author : Charlie Michael
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474424240

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The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular culture. While the Gallic `cultural exception' remains a forceful current to this day, this book shows how the onslaught of Hollywood mega-franchises and new media platforms since the 1980s has also provoked an overtly commercialised response from French producers eager to redefine the stakes and scope of their own traditions. Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implications, historical impact and cultural consequences of recent popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make - or to see - a `French' film today. From English-language action vehicles like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson, 2017) to revisionist historical films like Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2011) and crowd-pleasing comedies like Intouchables (Toledano & Nakache, 2011), the variously filiated `local blockbusters' from contemporary France brim with the seeds of cultural contradiction, but also with the energy of a forceful counter-history

Beyond the Blockbusters

Rebekah Fitzsimmons,Casey Alane Wilson
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Author : Rebekah Fitzsimmons,Casey Alane Wilson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496827159

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Beyond the Blockbusters by Rebekah Fitzsimmons,Casey Alane Wilson Pdf

Contributions by Megan Brown, Jill Coste, Sara K. Day, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Amber Gray, Roxanne Harde, Tom Jesse, Heidi Jones, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Leah Phillips, Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino, S. R. Toliver, Jason Vanfosson, Sarah E. Whitney, and Casey Alane Wilson While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give overwhelm conversations among scholars and critics—but these are far from the only texts in need of analysis. Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction offers a necessary remedy to this limiting perspective, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have until now been overlooked. The collection tackles a diverse range of topics—modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice. The approaches are united, though, by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, Beyond the Blockbusters is an exciting entryway into a field that continues to grow and change even as its works captivate massive audiences. It will prove a crucial addition to the library of any scholar or instructor of young adult literature.

Blockbuster

Tom Shone
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Author : Tom Shone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0743235681

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"But somewhere along the line, the beast they awakened took on a life of its own, and by the 1990s production budgets had escalated as quickly as profits. Hollywood entered a topsy-turvy world ruled by marketing and merchandising mavens, in which flops like Godzilla made money and hits had to break records just to break even. The blockbuster changed from a major event that took place a few times a year into something that audiences have come to expect weekly, piling into the backs of one another in an annual demolition derby that has left even Hollywood aghast.".

Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters

Sheldon Hall
Epics Spectacles and Blockbusters Book PDF

Author : Sheldon Hall
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814336973

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Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters by Sheldon Hall Pdf

Considers the history of the American blockbuster—the large-scale, high-cost film—as it evolved from the 1890s to today.

Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters

Sheldon Hall,Stephen Neale
Epics Spectacles and Blockbusters Book PDF

Author : Sheldon Hall,Stephen Neale
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 0814330088

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Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters by Sheldon Hall,Stephen Neale Pdf

Considers the history of the American blockbuster-the large-scale, high-cost film-as it evolved from the 1890s to today.

Creating Blockbusters!

Gene Del Vecchio
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Author : Gene Del Vecchio
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1455615293

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Creating Blockbusters! by Gene Del Vecchio Pdf

A guide to creating "ever-cool" entertainment. An asset to entertainment executives or anyone aiming to create the next big hit, this book offers guidelines for developing concepts and marketing blockbusters. Whether it is a best-selling novel, a video game, or a high-tech toy, blockbusters play a big part in American society. Despite the prominence of these breakthrough hits, most entertainment ventures do not survive in today's competitive market. This guide identifies the key principles that will ensure lasting success.

Blockbuster History in the New Russia

Stephen M. Norris
Blockbuster History in the New Russia Book PDF

Author : Stephen M. Norris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253007087

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Blockbuster History in the New Russia by Stephen M. Norris Pdf

Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history. Unsettled by the government’s move toward market capitalism, Russians embraced these historical blockbusters, packing the American-style multiplexes that sprouted across the country. Stephen M. Norris examines the connections among cinema, politics, economics, history, and patriotism in the creation of "blockbuster history"—the adaptation of an American cinematic style to Russian historical epics.

American Blockbuster

Charles R. Acland
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Author : Charles R. Acland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478012160

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American Blockbuster by Charles R. Acland Pdf

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.

Blockbusters and Trade Wars

Peter S. Grant,Chris Wood
Blockbusters and Trade Wars Book PDF

Author : Peter S. Grant,Chris Wood
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781926706795

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Blockbusters and Trade Wars by Peter S. Grant,Chris Wood Pdf

The unparalleled global distribution of books, television programs and other cultural products would seem to augur well for the diversity of ideas and creative expression. Yet ever more of this flow is concentrated in the hands of fewer giant corporations, significantly American controlled, whose agenda is not pluralism but profit. This book focuses upon the market dynamics that drive ever-greater audiences to "blockbuster" films, TV programs, books and recording artists—at the expense of independent, alternative and increasingly necessary national voices. This is the first book from a Canadian perspective to investigate the facts about where and how cultural artifacts are created, why they are so different from other manufactured products, and why they must be treated differently. Grant and Wood examine how much the nature and size of a cultural industry’s owner(s) matters; what "national" really means; how content quotas, expenditure rules and government subsidies help and hinder cultural industries; and why a new international vision must prevail. At the same time, they take a look at competition law and how it can promote diversity while examining how freedom of expression and cultural diversity are inextricably linked. Clearly written, impeccably researched, and passionately argued.

Industrial Society and the Science Fiction Blockbuster

Mark T. Decker
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Author : Mark T. Decker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476623870

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Industrial Society and the Science Fiction Blockbuster by Mark T. Decker Pdf

Can blockbuster films be socially relevant or are they just escapist diversions to entertain the masses and enrich the studios? Not every successful film contains thoughtful commentary, but some that are marketed as pure entertainment do seriously engage social issues. Popular science fiction films of the late 1970s and early 1980s--such as George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy, Ridley Scott's Alien and Aliens, and James Cameron's Terminator films--present a critique of our engagement with technology in a way that resonates with 1960s counterculture. As challengers of the status quo's technological underpinnings, Luke Skywalker, Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor echo the once-popular social criticism of philosopher Herbert Marcuse and speak directly to the concerns of people living in a technologically complex society. The films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron made money but also made us think about the world we live in.

Hollywood Blockbusters

David Sutton,Peter Wogan
Hollywood Blockbusters Book PDF

Author : David Sutton,Peter Wogan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847886392

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Hollywood Blockbusters by David Sutton,Peter Wogan Pdf

Certain Hollywood movies are now so deeply woven into the cultural fabric that lines of their dialogue - for example, 'Make him an offer he can't refuse' - have been incorporated into everyday discourse. The films explored in this book, which include The Godfather, Jaws, The Big Lebowski, Field of Dreams and The Village, have become important cultural myths, fascinating windows into the schisms, tensions, and problems of American culture. Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies uses anthropology to understand why these movies have such enduring appeal in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin cycles. Exploring key anthropological issues from ritual, kinship, gift giving and totemism to literacy, stereotypes, boundaries and warfare, this fascinating book uncovers new insights into the significance of modern film classics for students of Film, Media, Anthropology and American Cultural Studies.

Blockbusters!

Robert Tanitch
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Author : Robert Tanitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110153082

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Blockbusters! by Robert Tanitch Pdf

Revel in seven decades of cinematic glory with this nostalgic, year-by-year review of the highest grossing films each year since 1930. It includes the main news events for each year, plus a detailed summary of each film with cast details and award comparisons.