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George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success
By Alex Ben Block and Lucy Autrey Wilson
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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.
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Reviews for George Lucas's Blockbusting
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5George Lucas's name is featured prominently on the cover, but he only wrote a one page intro and apparently selected the films. Kind of a quirky list of films in my opinion. Discovered quite a few egregious errors as well, so can't recommend. There must be better movie books out there, but for now I'm sticking with IMDB.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent and very detailed overview of the 300+ movies from the last 100 years of so and their financial and critical succeses.One bad thing about the book is that it is ridden with typos.Another thing is the strange fact that it stop in 2005, no movies from 2006-2010 are included even thought the book just came out.