Film & Moving Image · Film History
A topic within Film History, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Film & Moving Image.
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Peter Krämer
Argues the industry's pivot toward youth-driven, high-concept blockbusters after 1967 was a calculated response to collapsing audiences, not the accidental byproduct of a few directors' personal visions.
Sheldon Hall & Steve Neale
Argues the blockbuster is not a late-twentieth-century invention but a business strategy — betting huge budgets on scale and spectacle to secure event status — that Hollywood has repeated in cycles since the silent era.