Movie Blockbusters

Introduction Julian Stringer, University of Nottingham, The New Hollywood Thomas Schatz Part I: Industry Matters 1. Hollywood Blockbusters: Historical Dimensions Steve Neale, Sheffield Hallam University 2. Following the Money in Amercia's Sunniest Company Town: Some notes on the political economy of Hollywood Blockbusters Jon Lewis 3. The Hollywood Blockbuster: Industrial Analysis and Practice Douglas Gomery, University of Maryland 4. The Role of the Auteur in the Age of the Blockbuster: Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks Warren Buckland, Liverpool John Moores University Part II: Exploring Spectacle 5. Talking About a Revolution: The Blockbuster as Industrial Advertisement Michael Allen, Birkbeck College 6. Spectacle Narrative and the Spectacular Hollywood Blockbuster Geoff King 7. 'Want to Take a Rice?': Reflections on the Blockbuster Experience in Contact (1997) Peter Kramer 8. Blockbusting Sound: The Case of The FugitiveGianluca Sergi Part III: Establishing Cultural Status 9. Circulations of Taste: Titanic, The Oscars and the Middle Brow Gillian Roberts 10. Sex, Controversy, Box-office: from Blockbuster to Bonkbuster Rebecca Feasey University of Nottingham 11. Star wars in Fandom, Film Theory and the Museum: the Cultural Status of the Cult Blockbuster Matt Hills, Cardiff University 12. ^The Best Place to See a Film: the Blockbuster, the Multiplex and the Contexts of Consumption Mark Jancovich, University of Nottingham> and Lucy Faire 13. Neither One Thing Nor the Other: Blockbusters at Film Festivals Julian Stringer Part IV: The Blockbuster in the International Frame 14. What's Big about the Big Film?: 'De-westernising' the Blockbuster in Korea and China Chris Berry, University of California Berkeley 15. Once Were Warriors: New Zealand's First Indigenous Blockbuster Kirsten Moana Thompson, Wayne State University 16. Television for the Big Screen: How ComodinesN Became Argentina's First Blockbuster Phenomenon amara L. Falicov, University of Kansas 17. Locating Bollywood: Notes on the Hindi Blockbuster 1975 to the Present Andrew Willis, University of Salford