Lauren Steimer

Experts in Action

Transnational Hong Kong-Style Stunt Work and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts around the globe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011705
• ISBN-10: 147801170X
• Artikelnr.: 59583887

Autorenporträt

Lauren Steimer

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Experts in Action  1
1. Risky Business: Financial and Physical Risk in the Action Stardom of
Jackie Chan  23
2. Hong Kong Action Cinema as a Mode in Thai Action Stardom: Tony Jaa and
the New Stunting Star Model  56
3. A Hong Kong Reservoir for Xena: Communicative Translation and the Bodily
Disposition of Stunting Star Zoë Bell  86
4. Hong Kong Action in Transit: The Postmillennial Stunt Craftwork of Chad
Stahelski and Dayna Grant  121
Conclusion. Novice and Expert Performance—a Call to Action  162
Notes  175
Bibliography  199
Index  215