Experts in action: transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance
Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industr...
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Zusammenfassung: | Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong--influenced cinema aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts in Hollywood, New Zealand, and Thailand. Foregrounding the transnational circulation of Hong Kong--influenced films, television shows, stars, choreographers, and stunt workers, she shows how stunt workers like Chan, Bell, and others combine techniques from martial arts, dance, Peking opera, and the history of movie and television stunting practices to create embodied performances that are both spectacular and, sometimes, rendered invisible. By describing the training, skills, and labor involved in stunt work as well as the location-dependent material conditions and regulations that impact it, Steimer illuminates the expertise of the workers whose labor is indispensable to some of the world's most popular movies |
Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 222 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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spelling | Steimer, Lauren Verfasser (DE-588)1233758675 aut Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance Lauren Steimer Durham ; London Duke University Press 2021 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 222 Seiten) Illustrationen txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong--influenced cinema aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts in Hollywood, New Zealand, and Thailand. Foregrounding the transnational circulation of Hong Kong--influenced films, television shows, stars, choreographers, and stunt workers, she shows how stunt workers like Chan, Bell, and others combine techniques from martial arts, dance, Peking opera, and the history of movie and television stunting practices to create embodied performances that are both spectacular and, sometimes, rendered invisible. By describing the training, skills, and labor involved in stunt work as well as the location-dependent material conditions and regulations that impact it, Steimer illuminates the expertise of the workers whose labor is indispensable to some of the world's most popular movies Geschichte 1980- gnd rswk-swf PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism bisacsh Martial arts films China Hong Kong Motion picture actors and actresses China Hong Kong Stunt performers China Hong Kong Stuntman (DE-588)4205482-5 gnd rswk-swf Martial-Arts-Film (DE-588)4667411-1 gnd rswk-swf Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0 gnd rswk-swf Stuntwoman (DE-588)1031884106 gnd rswk-swf Hongkong (DE-588)4025822-1 gnd rswk-swf Hongkong (DE-588)4025822-1 g Martial-Arts-Film (DE-588)4667411-1 s Stuntman (DE-588)4205482-5 s Stuntwoman (DE-588)1031884106 s Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0 s Geschichte 1980- z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-1-4780-1057-9 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-1-4780-1170-5 https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021261 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
spellingShingle | Steimer, Lauren Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism bisacsh Martial arts films China Hong Kong Motion picture actors and actresses China Hong Kong Stunt performers China Hong Kong Stuntman (DE-588)4205482-5 gnd Martial-Arts-Film (DE-588)4667411-1 gnd Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0 gnd Stuntwoman (DE-588)1031884106 gnd |
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title | Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance |
title_auth | Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance |
title_exact_search | Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance |
title_exact_search_txtP | Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance |
title_full | Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance Lauren Steimer |
title_fullStr | Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance Lauren Steimer |
title_full_unstemmed | Experts in action transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance Lauren Steimer |
title_short | Experts in action |
title_sort | experts in action transnational hong kong style stunt work and performance |
title_sub | transnational Hong Kong-style stunt work and performance |
topic | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism bisacsh Martial arts films China Hong Kong Motion picture actors and actresses China Hong Kong Stunt performers China Hong Kong Stuntman (DE-588)4205482-5 gnd Martial-Arts-Film (DE-588)4667411-1 gnd Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0 gnd Stuntwoman (DE-588)1031884106 gnd |
topic_facet | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism Martial arts films China Hong Kong Motion picture actors and actresses China Hong Kong Stunt performers China Hong Kong Stuntman Martial-Arts-Film Globalisierung Stuntwoman Hongkong |
url | https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021261 |
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