Blockbuster Performances How Actors Contribute to Cinema's Biggest Hits /

• Main Author: Smith-Rowsey, Daniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Screen Industries and Performance
• Subjects: Motion picture acting.; Motion pictures-United States.; Screen Performance.; American Cinema and TV.

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-bu...

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.