Box Office Poison - Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood''s most spectacular flops. ''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.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Robey, Robey Tim
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780571381203
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38120-3
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Films, cinema, Film: styles and genres, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Guides & Reviews, Film history, theory or criticism, Film guides and reviews, Film Guides & Reviews