George Lucas's Blockbusting : : a Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success
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A comprehensive look at 300 of the most financially and/or critically successful motion pictures of all time-- many made despite seemingly insurmountable economic, cultural, and political challenges-- set against the prevailing production, distribution, exhibition, marketing and technology trends of each decade in movie business history.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
A flop
submitted by emjane on July 14, 2012, 7:48pm
Blockbusting reads like the love child of a middle-school textbook and an imdb trivia page. Though it has plenty of fun facts, they are hidden within the poor writing and uninteresting talk of which actors and directors were originally set to participate in the film.
Blockbusting separates film history into decade chapters from pre-1909 to the 2000s. Each chapter begins with history of the decade’s movie business and graphs that (in my opinion) have far too much to do with finance, and it ends with two-page profiles on selected movies. It is these profiles that I have the biggest problems with. For the most part, the writing is just terrible. Sentences regarding completely different topics are placed next to each other without any transitions.
It's more useful as a reference book than a book to read from cover to cover.
PUBLISHED
New York : itBooks, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xxix, 944 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780061778896
0061778893
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Block, Alex Ben.
Wilson, Lucy Autrey.
SUBJECTS
Motion pictures -- Reviews.
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion pictures -- Catalogs.