Contemporary Action Cinema /

Contemporary Action Cinema / / Lisa Purse.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Purse, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations 10 black and white film stills 
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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