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  title info:
    title: Blockbuster Performances
    sub title: How Actors Contribute to Cinema's Biggest Hits
  name:
    name part: Smith-Rowsey, Daniel.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 211 p. 22 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines performances in the American film industry's highest-earning and most influential films. Countering decades of discourse and the conventional notion that special effects are the real stars of Hollywood blockbusters, this book finds that the acting performances in these big-budget action movies are actually better, and more genre-appropriate, than reputed. It argues that while blockbusters are often edited for speed, thrills, and simplicity, and performances are sometimes tailored to this style, most major productions feature more scenes of stage-like acting than hyper-kinetic action. Knowing this, producers of the world's highest-budgeted motion pictures usually cast strong or generically appropriate actors. With chapters offering unique readings of some of cinema's biggest hits, such as The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Iron Man and The Hunger Games, this unprecedented study sheds new light on the importance of performance in the Hollywood blockbuster. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Why Do Critics and Scholars Dismiss Blockbuster Performances? -- 2. Historical Epic Blockbusters: Are You Not Entertained...By Actors? -- 3. Magic Fantasy Blockbusters: One Whimsy to Rule Them All -- 4. Superhero Blockbusters: Actors Ahead of the Curve -- 5. Crime Action Blockbusters: Performing Shaken, Not Stirred -- 6. Male-Led Science Fiction Blockbusters: Performing "Faster, More Intense" -- 7. Female-Led Science Fiction Blockbusters: Performing "Stop Taking My Hand!" -- 8. Conclusion: Once More Around the Blockbuster.
  note: by Daniel Smith-Rowsey.
  subject:
    topic: Motion picture acting
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures-United States
  subject:
    topic: Screen Performance
  subject:
    topic: American Cinema and TV
  classification: PN1995.9.A26
  classification: 791.43028
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Screen Industries and Performance
  identifier: 9781137518798
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51879-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 181127
    record change date: 20191026091819.0
    record identifier: 978-1-137-51879-8