Author: Janet Staiger
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: era, network, sitcoms, blockbuster
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0814797571
ISBN-13: 9780814797570

Archie Bunker. Jed. Laverne and Shirley. Cliff Huxtable. Throughout the entire history of American prime-time television only four sitcoms have been true blockbusters, with Nielsen ratings far above the second- and third-rated programs. Weekly, millions of Americans of every age were making a special effort to turn on the set to see what Archie, Jed, Laverne, and Cliff were doing that week. The wild popularity of these shows--All in the Family, The Beverly Hillbillies, Laverne & Shirley (and its partner Happy Days), and The Cosby Show--left commentators bewildered by the tastes and prefere

Author: Martha Alderso
Publisher: Illusion Pre
Keywords: simple, plots, blockbuster
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1877809195
ISBN-13: 9781877809194

Blockbuster Plots Pure and Simple (BBP) shows plot rather than talking about it. Using two unique step-by-step visual tools for developing and deepening scenes and plot, BBP shows how the pros layer three distinct yet overlapping plotlines – Character Emotional Development, Dramatic Action, and Thematic Plot. When the dramatic action changes the character at depth over time, the story becomes thematically significant. BBP uses the Scene Tracker as a visual tool to track the seven essential elements of scene, side-by-side from the beginning to the end of any project. BBP uses the Plot Planner

Author: Michael Theisen
Publisher: Saint Mary’s Press
Keywords: sequel, illustrations, movie, blockbuster
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0764424548
ISBN-13: 9780764424540

This guide is a Blockbuster sequel not to be missed! Reel in teenagers by using clips from popular movies to vividly illustrate what the Bible has to say about critical issues they face. These clips are great attention-getting openings, memorable closings, starting points to build a lesson on, and sermon illustrations. (Actual videos not included). Click tell me more to see all the movies suggested in this book.

Authors:Kevin S. Sandler, Gaylyn Studlar,
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: blockbuster, anatomy, titanic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0813526698
ISBN-13: 9780813526690

Author: Bryan Belknap
Publisher: Group Publishing(CO)
Keywords: return, illustrations, movie, blockbuster, group
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2006-06
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0764429817
ISBN-13: 9780764429811

Author: Geoff King
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: cinema, society, blockbuster, hollywood, narratives, spectacular
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-02-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1860645739
ISBN-13: 9781860645730

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.

Author: Vicki Kunkel
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: blockbuster, success, create, factors, appeal, primal, instant
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-11-26
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0814409466
ISBN-13: 9780814409466