Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies

by Peter Wogan and David Sutton

Book Overview

Why do 'Jaws', 'Field of Dreams', 'The Big Lebowski', and 'The Godfather' remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin cycles? "Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies" argues that these films continue to captivate audiences because they play upon underlying tensions and problems in American culture, much like the myths that anthropologists study in non-Western contexts. In making this argument,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847884865
• ISBN13: 9781847884862
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.4"