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Spectacular Narratives

By Geoff King

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Spectacular Narratives

By Geoff King

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2000-11-24
Publication Date:
2000-11-24
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1860645739
ISBN13:
9781860645730
Weight:
336 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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