-- Stephen Watt is located in Bloomington, IN --Caitlin Watt is located in Clemson, SC -- The editors and contributors to this volume are from a wide range of disciplines to address all aspects of John Wick worldbuilding and are best for this work because they are responsible for the research at ""The World(s) of John Wick"" conference in November 2019. -- Whether you consider the John Wick film franchise to be full of instant cult classics or surprise hits, the movies are no doubt a nostalgic throwback to revenge-thrillers popularized in the 1970s while featuring the action impulses of Kung F
-- Stephen Watt is located in Bloomington, IN --Caitlin Watt is located in Clemson, SC -- The editors and contributors to this volume are from a wide range of disciplines to address all aspects of John Wick worldbuilding and are best for this work because they are responsible for the research at ""The World(s) of John Wick"" conference in November 2019. -- Whether you consider the John Wick film franchise to be full of instant cult classics or surprise hits, the movies are no doubt a nostalgic throwback to revenge-thrillers popularized in the 1970s while featuring the action impulses of Kung F
Caitlin G. Watt's work, which focuses on gender and sexuality and narrative theories of character in medieval romances, has appeared in Neophilologus, Erasmus Studies, Medieval Feminist Forum, and Postmedieval. Her current project examines the development of the Arthurian storyworld in medieval manuscripts. Watt is Lecturer in the Department of English at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. Stephen Watt's most recent books include Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel and "Something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious. In addition, he coedited Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007. Most of his published writing treats one of three topics: Irish Studies; drama, film, and performance studies; or the contemporary university. Watt is Provost Professor Emeritus of English and former Associate Dean of the School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Worlds of John Wick, by Caitlin G. Watt and Stephen Watt Part I: John Wick and Action Cinema 1. Red Circle of Revenge: Anatomy of the Fight Sequence in John Wick, by Lisa Coulthard and Lindsay Steenberg 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Stunt-Craft Work in John Wick and the Networked Worlds of 87Eleven Action Design, by Lauren Steimer 3. Killing in Equanimity: Theorizing John Wick's Action Aesthetics, by Wayne Wong Part II: The Economies and Phenomenology of the Wickverse 4. The Continental Abyss: John Wick vs. the Frankfurt School, by Skip Willman 5. Bitcoin, Shitcoin, Wickcoin: The Hidden Phenomenology of John Wick, by Aaron Jaffe Part III: John Wick: Other Cultural Forms and Genres 6. Fortune Favors the Bold: The State of Games and Play in the John Wick Films, by Edward P. Dallis-Comentale 7. 'The One You Sent to Kill the Boogeyman': Folklore and Identity Deconstruction in the John Wick Universe, by Caitlin G. Watt 8. Captain Dead Wick: Grief and the Monstrous in the John Wick and Deadpool Films, by Mary Nestor Part IV: John Wick's Matrix: Space and Time 9. Classical Orders, Modernist Revisions, Fantastical Expansions: Reading the Architecture of the John Wick Franchise, by Andrew Battaglia and Marleen Newman 10. Out of Time and Going Sideways: John Wick, Time Traveler, by Charles M. Tung 11. John Wick's Blank Cosmopolitanism and the Global Spatiality of the Wickverse, by Mi Jeong Lee Part V: Gender and the Body in John Wick 12. John Wick's Multiply Signifying Dogs, by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick 13. Masculinity, Isolation, and Revenge: John Wick's Liminal Body, by Owen R. Horton 14. Professionalism and Gender Performance in the John Wickverse, by Vivian Nun Halloran 15. Style and the Sacrificial Body in John Wick 3, by Stephen Watt Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Worlds of John Wick, by Caitlin G. Watt and Stephen Watt Part I: John Wick and Action Cinema 1. Red Circle of Revenge: Anatomy of the Fight Sequence in John Wick, by Lisa Coulthard and Lindsay Steenberg 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Stunt-Craft Work in John Wick and the Networked Worlds of 87Eleven Action Design, by Lauren Steimer 3. Killing in Equanimity: Theorizing John Wick's Action Aesthetics, by Wayne Wong Part II: The Economies and Phenomenology of the Wickverse 4. The Continental Abyss: John Wick vs. the Frankfurt School, by Skip Willman 5. Bitcoin, Shitcoin, Wickcoin: The Hidden Phenomenology of John Wick, by Aaron Jaffe Part III: John Wick: Other Cultural Forms and Genres 6. Fortune Favors the Bold: The State of Games and Play in the John Wick Films, by Edward P. Dallis-Comentale 7. 'The One You Sent to Kill the Boogeyman': Folklore and Identity Deconstruction in the John Wick Universe, by Caitlin G. Watt 8. Captain Dead Wick: Grief and the Monstrous in the John Wick and Deadpool Films, by Mary Nestor Part IV: John Wick's Matrix: Space and Time 9. Classical Orders, Modernist Revisions, Fantastical Expansions: Reading the Architecture of the John Wick Franchise, by Andrew Battaglia and Marleen Newman 10. Out of Time and Going Sideways: John Wick, Time Traveler, by Charles M. Tung 11. John Wick's Blank Cosmopolitanism and the Global Spatiality of the Wickverse, by Mi Jeong Lee Part V: Gender and the Body in John Wick 12. John Wick's Multiply Signifying Dogs, by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick 13. Masculinity, Isolation, and Revenge: John Wick's Liminal Body, by Owen R. Horton 14. Professionalism and Gender Performance in the John Wickverse, by Vivian Nun Halloran 15. Style and the Sacrificial Body in John Wick 3, by Stephen Watt Bibliography Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
