Department of Theatre and Film

Forum Editors:
Cynthia Baron and Rosalind Sibielski

The forum takes up: points raised in the anthology’s opening by Julian Stringer and Thomas Schatz; considerations outlined in the first section, Industry Matters, by Steve Neale, Jon Lewis, and Warren Buckland; views expressed by Michael Allen, Geoff King, and Peter Krämer in the section on Exploring Spectacle; factors noted in the third section, Establishing Cultural Status, by Gillian Roberts, and Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire; and perspectives offered by Andrew Willis in the final section, The Blockbuster in the International Frame.

Forum Essays: Part I

Darin D. Kerr, “‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat”: Expanding the Boundaries of Critical Practice”

Sudipto Sanyal, “Beyond the Hollywood Blockbuster:  Theorizing a Culturally-Specific Genre Studies Practice”

Kevan A. Feshami, “Cinema Studies Outside the Art/Commerce Binary”

Justin Philpot, “At the Intersection of Commerce and Culture:  The Movie Blockbuster”

Christian Remse, “The Cultural Space of Movie Blockbusters”

Forum Essays: Part II

Bryan McGeary, “Cinema Studies and Questions of Taste”

Carolyn J. Sweet, “Epic Heroines in Hollywood Blockbusters”

J.R. Rawlins, “The Intellectual Blockbuster:  Robert Zemeckis’s Contact”

Ed Uszynski, “Blockbusters and Transcendence”

Darin D. Kerr, “A Genre of ‘Ideas’:  The Science Fiction Blockbuster”