Box Office Poison [electronic resource] : Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
Tim Robey2024
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'Hugely entertaining.' Prospect 'An instant classic.' Andrew O'Hagan, author of
Caledonian Road 'Expertly researched.' Sight & Sound 'A rollicking, gossipy
triumph.' Daily Telegraph ***** 'Wildly enjoyable.'Guardian 'Failure fascinates,
for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .' From grand follies to
misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary
adaptations, Tim Robey's hugely entertaining Box Office Poison tells an
alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops.
Freaks, Land of the Pharaohs, Dune, Speed 2, Catwoman, Cats: what can these
films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public's appetite - or lack of it
- and the circumstances that saw such box office disasters actually made? Away
from the canon, here is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential
celluloid failures.
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Author:
Tim Robey, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Faber & Faber, 2024
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1 online resource (1 text file) (244 pages, 3345722.0 Bytes)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780571381227
Language:
English
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BRN:
522096
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