Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire

Since the late 1970s, Hollywood science fiction blockbusters have been an attractive but random investment. Although the genre is well represented at the top of the box office, it is not a guarantee of success. It regularly records serious setbacks and is deployed in a heterogeneous range of product...

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Main Author: Gaspard Delon
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Language:fra
Published: Université de Limoges 2021-06-01
Series:ReS Futurae
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/resf/9065
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description Since the late 1970s, Hollywood science fiction blockbusters have been an attractive but random investment. Although the genre is well represented at the top of the box office, it is not a guarantee of success. It regularly records serious setbacks and is deployed in a heterogeneous range of productions. The market share of science fiction cinema within North American production (difficult to assess because of the overlap between SF cinema, horror, disaster films or superhero films) is limited but significant and expanding, sometimes spectacularly, in the 2000s. The increasingly systematic recourse to franchises tends to marginalize unitary projects and pushes for the constitution of extended fictional ensembles closely controlled by the majors, which engage in harsh competition in this field, aiming, at the very least, to consolidate their positions. In this relatively stable landscape, now dominated by Disney, the emergence of new content producers and the development of television series appear to be powerful factors of imbalance.
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Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire
ReS Futurae
cinema
Hollywood
economy
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franchise
title Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire
title_full Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire
title_fullStr Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire
title_full_unstemmed Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire
title_short Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire
title_sort blockbuster de science fiction etendue extension morcellement du territoire
topic cinema
Hollywood
economy
major
blockbuster
franchise
url https://journals.openedition.org/resf/9065
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