George Lucas's blockbusting: a decade-by-decade survey of timeless movies, including untold secrets of their financial and cultural success
Blockbusting
edited by Alex Ben Block & Lucy Autrey Wilson ; with a preface by George Lucas ; introduction by Francis Ford Coppola.
- 1st ed.
- New York : itBooks, 2010.
- xxix, 944 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"George Lucas books." Top 300 films of all time -- The beginning to 1909 -- The 1910s (decade and featured films) -- The 1920s (decade and featured films) -- The 1930s (decade and featured films) -- The 1940s (decade and featured films) -- The 1950s (decade and featured films) -- Film industry at a glance, from inception to 2005 -- The 1960s (decade and featured films) -- The 1970s (decade and featured films) -- The 1980s (decade and featured films) -- The 1990s (decade and featured films) -- The 2000 (decade and featured films).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 903-919) and index.
A comprehensive look at 300 of the most financially and/or critically successful motion pictures of all time-- many made despite seemingly insurmountable economic, cultural, and political challenges-- set against the prevailing production, distribution, exhibition, marketing and technology trends of each decade in movie business history.