Front cover image for Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters : a Hollywood history

Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters : a Hollywood history

The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. This title considers the history of the American blockbuster - the large-scale, high-cost film - as it evolved from the 1890s.
Print Book, English, cop. 2010
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, cop. 2010
VII, 363 s. : il. ; 26 cm.
9780814330081, 0814330088
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