Let's Make It a Block Buster Night

By (author) Jeff Rauseo

ISBN13: 9781684818198

Imprint: Mango Media

Publisher: Mango Media

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 14/11/2025

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Description
Let's Make It a Block Buster Night serves as a movie guide for a new generation of film fans who have grown up without the access to video stores and shelves full of movies. Millennial and Gen-Z movie fans have always been subjected to algorithms to find new movies and discover films, and this book is a guide to getting outside of the algorithm. Author Jeff Rauseo wants readers to find their new favorite movie, help them choose something fresh and new, and make connections back to popular movies in a way that will resonate with them. Let's Make It a Block Buster Night is a way for readers to get to know film history, the streaming wars, and film criticism to be better equipped in finding new movies that studios or streamers aren’t interested in showing.  This book is a way back to a more human way of consuming media and art. While the book will highlight what films the reader may like, it uses those same hidden gem movies to teach about the history and psychology that goes into why we love the movies we love, and why an algorithm is likely robbing you of some of your favorite movies you don’t even know exist.
Foreword by Chris Stuckmann or Alicia Malone Introduction Introduce and explore briefly the 15 to 30 movies that will help highlight or reinforce the concepts of each part. Part 1: Friday Night Movie…at Home? Explore how movies are consumed today. Highlight the pros and cons. Give background on why we see movies the way we do and analyze when the shift happened. Explore this impact on movies, genres, and the industry over the last 25 years. Part 2: When We Were Young  Quick history of movies from the 50s to the start of streaming/Netflix The rise and fall of Blockbuster and video stores Physical Media, DVDs, Blu Ray Convenience over choice or the illusion of choice Part 3: Spoiler Warnings, Pandemics and Greed A look at the biggest studios and indie studios that have snowballed this problem Marvel, Dune, and Star Wars: the good, bad and ugly they present The Pandemic The Future Conclusion
  • Films, cinema
  • Film theory & criticism
  • General (US: Trade)
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