Contemporary Action Cinema / / Lisa Purse.
Action cinema is a popular and familiar form which reflects the cultural, industrial and historical landscape from which it emerges. Lisa Purse analyses the genre's pleasures and complexities in the light of both its cinematic history and the latest critical debates. Focussing on action cinema...
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Purse, Lisa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Contemporary Action Cinema / Lisa Purse. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2011 1 online resource (232 p.) : 10 B/W illustrations 10 black and white film stills text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: ‘Where are we, and how did we get here?’ -- 1. Narrative and the action film -- 2. The action body -- 3. The action sequence -- 4. Action women -- 5. Action men -- 6. Race in the action film -- 7. Homosexuality in the action film -- 8. Action cinema after 9/11 -- 9. The ‘European connection’ -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Television Series -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Action cinema is a popular and familiar form which reflects the cultural, industrial and historical landscape from which it emerges. Lisa Purse analyses the genre's pleasures and complexities in the light of both its cinematic history and the latest critical debates. Focussing on action cinema of the 2000s, this book explores issues of visual style, narrative, representation and the various contexts of production through a diverse series of case studies including Avatar (2009), Casino Royale (2006), The Hurt Locker (2008) and Banlieue 13 (2004). Providing a groundbreaking account of the way that the spectator engages with the action body and the action narrative, and including analyses of areas of representation that have seldom received sustained attention in the past, this comprehensive study is the perfect companion to modern action cinema.Key FeaturesProvides wide-ranging analyses and interpretation of action cinemaDiscusses representations of heroism, gender and ethnicityExplores the spectator's embodied engagement with the action film Examines the effect of 9/11 and changes in US foreign policy Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Action and adventure films. Motion pictures. Film, Media & Cultural Studies. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748638178 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646128?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646128 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748646128/original |
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