{"id":194,"date":"2016-06-23T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/06\/23\/media-services-at-the-movies-independence-day-resurgence\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:30:00","slug":"media-services-at-the-movies-independence-day-resurgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/06\/23\/media-services-at-the-movies-independence-day-resurgence\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Services at the Movies: Independence Day: Resurgence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection.<\/i><\/p>\n

Marvel’s brand of interconnected, tonally similar action dominates the movie landscape today, but it’s difficult to understate what a massive effect Independence Day<\/i> had on blockbusters in 1996. Director Roland Emmerich, at the point best known for Stargate<\/i>, took the template of 70s disaster movies like The Poseidon Adventure<\/i> and updated it for the era of $100 million budgets. You can trace its influence to Deep Impact<\/i>, Cloverfield<\/i>, Sharknado<\/i>, and basically everything by Michael Bay.<\/p>\n

The upcoming sequel to Independence Day<\/i> has the chance to re-plant the flag for big dumb disaster movies, but instead of looking forward, let’s roll the clock back. As we said, disaster movies had been successful in decades prior, and Independence Day: Resurgence<\/i> owes its template to that first wave of the genre. So for those looking forward to another wave of people in fleeing in panic while cities explode, the Nixon era has you covered.<\/p>\n

The China Syndrome \u2013 HU DVD 237<\/a>
The Towering Inferno \u2013 HU DVD 8555<\/a>
The Andromeda Strain \u2013 HU DVD 11322<\/a>
Airport \u2013 HU DVD 11854<\/a>
The Poseidon Adventure \u2013 HU DVD 12591<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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