Box office poison Hollywood's story in a century of flops
"From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. What can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public...
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada :
Hanover Square Press,
2024.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Robey, Tim, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Box office poison : |b Hollywood's story in a century of flops / |c Tim Robey. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Toronto, Ontario, Canada : |b Hanover Square Press, |c 2024. | |
| 300 | |a 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a First published in 2024 by Faber. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Intolerance (1916) -- Queen Kelly (1929) -- Freaks (1932) -- Sylvia Scarlett (1935) -- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) -- Land of the Pharaohs (1955) -- Doctor Dolittle (1967) -- Sorcerer (1977) -- Dune (1984) -- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) -- Nothing but Trouble (1991) -- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) -- Cutthroat Island (1995) -- Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) -- Babe: Pig in the City (1998) -- Supernova (2000) -- Rollerball (2002) -- The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) -- Gigli (2003) -- Catwoman (2004) -- Alexander (2004) -- A Sound of Thunder (2005) -- Speed Racer (2008) -- Synecdoche, New York (2008) -- Pan (2015) -- Cats (2019) -- Afterword. | |
| 520 | |a "From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. What can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public's appetite--or lack of it--and the circumstances that saw such flops actually made? Away from the canon, this is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Motion pictures |x Evaluation. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Motion pictures |z United States |x History. | |
| 655 | 0 | |a Film criticism. | |
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