A companion to the action film:
"As a genre of film the roots of which go all the way back to the birth of the medium and the reach of which extends all the way to the present day, the action film is a fascinating object of inquiry for scholars from a wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. In an effort to...
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| Summary: | "As a genre of film the roots of which go all the way back to the birth of the medium and the reach of which extends all the way to the present day, the action film is a fascinating object of inquiry for scholars from a wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. In an effort to contribute to the increase in scholarship on the action film across the humanities, I will endeavor to explore in this chapter some of the most important and influential character types (the cop, the gangster, the cowboy, the swashbuckler), narrative tropes (foot and car chases, last-minute rescues, fight scenes), and visual techniques (camera movement to dynamize space, parallel editing to intensify time) as they emerged and evolved over the course of the first half-century of film propaedeutic to a comprehensive understanding of the action film"... |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 494 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781119100492 |
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| adam_text | Contents About the Editor Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments viii ix xiii Introduction: The Action Film: “Over familiar and understudied” James Kendrick Part I 1 History Origins of the Action Film: Types, Tropes, and Techniques in Early Film History Kyle Barrowman 2 A Genre of Its Own: From Westerns, to Vigilantes, to Pure Action James Kendrick 3 The New Dominance: Action-Fantasy Hybrids and the New Superhero in 2000s Action Cinema Lisa Purse 4 Around the World in Action Mark Gallagher Part II Form and Aesthetics 1 9 11 35 55 74 97 5 The Perpetual Motion Aesthetic of Action Cinema Nick Jones 99 6 Asian Action Cinema and Its Influence on Hollywood Barna William Donovan 118
vi Contents 7 Comedy in Action Cynthia M. King 8 The Composite Body: Action Stars and Embodiment in the Digital Age Drew Ayers 165 Translating the Panel: Remediating a Comics Aesthetic in Contemporary ActionCinema Joshua Wucher 187 9 Part III 10 Auteurs: Directors,Stars, Choreographers Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah, and the Action Concept of Eastern Westerns Stephen Teo 11 The Martial Arts Supremacy: Action Film and Fight Choreography Paul Bowman 12 All Guts and No Glory: Stuntwork and Stunt Performers in Hollywood History Lauren Steimer 13 14 15 140 207 209 227 241 Hollywood’s Hard Bodies: The Stars Who Made the Action Films Famous Susan Jeffords 256 The Strange Case of Carlos Ray Norris: Reactionary Masculinity and Its Imaginary Discontents Tony Williams 270 New Action Realism: Claustrophobia, Immediacy, and Mediation in the Films of Kathryn Bigelow, Paul Greengrass, and Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 289 Part IV Social and Cultural Issues 307 16 Postmodernism in Action Movies Micheál McAlexander 309 17 The 1980s Action Film and the Politics of Urban Expulsions Jon Kraszewski 325 18 Infinite Crisis: Intertextuality and Watchmen Matt Yockey 345 19 Blowing Up the War Film: Powerlessness and the Crisis of the Action-Image in The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds Paul Gormley 364
Contents 20 21 22 vii X-Men/Action Men: Performing Masculinities in Superhero and Science-Fiction Cinema Yvonne Tasker 381 Unlikely Action Heroine: Melissa McCarthy Challenges Bodily Ideals in Modern Action Film Jeffrey A. Brown 398 “I Am Become Death”: Managing Massacres and Constructing the Female Teen Leader in The 100 Rikke Schubart 417 23 A Digital Nature: Lucy Takes Technology for a Ride Lorrie Palmer 24 “I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed”: Prosthetics, Agency Panic, and the High-Tech Action Film Steffen Hantke Index 439 456 473
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