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4. A Certain Amount of Plot: Tentpoles, Locomotives, Blockbusters, Megapictures, and the Action Movie

  • David Bordwell
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The Way Hollywood Tells It
This chapter is in the book The Way Hollywood Tells It
© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: Beyond The Blockbuster 1
  5. Part I: A Real Story
  6. 1. Continuing Tradition, By Any Means Necessary 21
  7. 2. Pushing the Premises 51
  8. 3. Subjective Stories and Network Narratives 72
  9. 4. A Certain Amount of Plot: Tentpoles, Locomotives, Blockbusters, Megapictures, and the Action Movie 104
  10. Part II: A Stylish Style
  11. 1. Intensified Continuity: Four Dimensions 115
  12. 2. Some Likely Sources 139
  13. 3. Style, Plain and Fancy 158
  14. 4. What’s Missing? 180
  15. Appendix: A Hollywood Timeline, 1960–2004 191
  16. Notes 243
  17. Index 273
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520932326-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: Beyond The Blockbuster 1
  5. Part I: A Real Story
  6. 1. Continuing Tradition, By Any Means Necessary 21
  7. 2. Pushing the Premises 51
  8. 3. Subjective Stories and Network Narratives 72
  9. 4. A Certain Amount of Plot: Tentpoles, Locomotives, Blockbusters, Megapictures, and the Action Movie 104
  10. Part II: A Stylish Style
  11. 1. Intensified Continuity: Four Dimensions 115
  12. 2. Some Likely Sources 139
  13. 3. Style, Plain and Fancy 158
  14. 4. What’s Missing? 180
  15. Appendix: A Hollywood Timeline, 1960–2004 191
  16. Notes 243
  17. Index 273
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