"American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" by Charles R. Acland (Duke University Press), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org Story produced by Gabriel Falcon. Editor: Lauren Barnello. See also: From the archive:...
“The New Era”) reflecting the challenges and struggles of ordinary citizens in the newly independent country. Over the next two decades Bollywood produced social dramas,romanticfilms, and historical epics. Some of Indian cinema’s most critically acclaimed and enduring movies were made during this...
History of film - Silent Era, Movies, Directors: Multiple-reel films had appeared in the United States as early as 1907, when Adolph Zukor distributed Pathé’s three-reel Passion Play, but when Vitagraph produced the five-reel The Life of Moses in 1909,
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People were interested not ju st in seeing hit movies they had missed in the theaters but also in a broad variety of other features.By summer 1986, Cook had expanded the Blockbuster concept to three ad ditional stores. To reflect the different nature of the company, Cook Data Services ...
In the history of Netflix, it’s business model and vision in the movie-rental industry was considerably different from that of their chief competitor – Blockbuster. The chief of retail video rental chain Blockbuster, John Antioco, on the other hand believed that video rental was a much more...
Not all high-tech sci-fi movies are set in dystopian futures, however. In Steven Spielberg's 1986 sci-fi blockbuster Jurassic Park dinosaurs from the distant past are recreated from their DNA, and in his 2001 movie AI Artificial Intelligence a high-tech company markets a new line of ...
The Godfather was not 1972's only blockbuster. Cabaret, an adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway musical of 1971, showed a domestic gross of more than $20 million. Liza Minnelli, daughter of film director Vincente Minnelli and the late Judy Garland, and evidently heir to her mother's ...
What do movies mean to the populace? Moviemaking, when it began, was just an explosive hobby for people. This 1915 movie, which was the first Hollywood blockbuster, calledThe Birth of a Nationportrayed Blacks as heathens and sex fiends and portrayed the Ku Klux Klan in the aftermath of the...