A Companion to the Action Film (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kendrick, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre

With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre. As the first major anthology on the action film in more than a decade, the volume offers insights into the genre's historical development, explores its production techniques and visual poetics, and provides reflections on the numerous social, cultural, and political issues it has and continues to embody.

A Companion to the Action Film offers original research and critical analysis that examines the iconic characteristics of the genre, its visual aesthetics, and its narrative traits; considers the impact of major directors and stars on the genre's evolution; puts the action film in dialogue with various technologies and other forms of media such as graphic novels and television; and maps out new avenues of critical study for the future. This important resource:

• Offers a definitive guide to the action film
• Contains insightful contributions from a wide range of international film experts and scholars
• Reviews the evolution of the genre from the silent era to today's age of digital blockbusters
• Offers nuanced commentary and analysis of socio-cultural issues such as race, nationality, and gender in action films

Written for scholars, teachers and students in film studies, film theory, film history, genre studies, and popular culture, A Companion to the Action Film is an essential guide to one of international cinema's most important, popular, and influential genres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119100768
• Artikelnr.: 55102662

Autorenporträt

JAMES KENDRICK is Professor of Film & Digital Media at Baylor University. He is the author of several books on cinema, including Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg (2014); Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (2009); and Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

About the Editor viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Action Film: "Over Familiar and Understudied" 1 James Kendrick Part I History 9 1 Origins of the Action Film: Types, Tropes, and Techniques in Early Film History 11 Kyle Barrowman 2 A Genre of Its Own: From Westerns, to Vigilantes, to Pure Action 35 James Kendrick 3 The New Dominance: Action
Fantasy Hybrids and the New Superhero in 2000s Action Cinema 55 Lisa Purse 4 Around the World in Action 74 Mark Gallagher Part II Form and Aesthetics 97 5 The Perpetual Motion Aesthetic of Action Cinema 99 Nick Jones 6 Asian Action Cinema and Its Influence on Hollywood 118 Barna William Donovan 7 Comedy in Action 140 Cynthia M. King 8 The Composite Body: Action Stars and Embodiment in the Digital Age 165 Drew Ayers 9 Translating the Panel: Remediating a Comics Aesthetic in Contemporary Action Cinema 187 Joshua Wucher Part III Auteurs: Directors, Stars, Choreographers 207 10 Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah, and the Action Concept of Eastern Westerns 209 Stephen Teo 11 The Martial Arts Supremacy: Action Film and Fight Choreography 227 Paul Bowman 12 All Guts and No Glory: Stuntwork and Stunt Performers in Hollywood History 241 Lauren Steimer 13 Hollywood's Hard Bodies: The Stars Who Made the Action Films Famous 256 Susan Jeffords 14 The Strange Case of Carlos Ray Norris: Reactionary Masculinity and Its Imaginary Discontents 270 Tony Williams 15 New Action Realism: Claustrophobia, Immediacy, and Mediation in the Films of Kathryn Bigelow, Paul Greengrass, and Michael Mann 289 Vincent M. Gaine Part IV Social and Cultural Issues 307 16 Postmodernism in Action Movies 309 Micheal McAlexander 17 The 1980s Action Film and the Politics of Urban Expulsions 325 Jon Kraszewski 18 Infinite Crisis: Intertextuality and Watchmen 345 Matt Yockey 19 Blowing Up the War Film: Powerlessness and the Crisis of the Action
Image in The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds 364 Paul Gormley 20 X
Men/Action Men: Performing Masculinities in Superhero and Science
Fiction Cinema 381 Yvonne Tasker 21 Unlikely Action Heroine: Melissa McCarthy Challenges Bodily Ideals in Modern Action Film 398 Jeffrey A. Brown 22 "I Am Become Death": Managing Massacres and Constructing the Female Teen Leader in The 100 417 Rikke Schubart 23 A Digital Nature: Lucy Takes Technology for a Ride 439 Lorrie Palmer 24 "I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed": Prosthetics, Agency Panic, and the High
Tech Action Film 456 Steffen Hantke Index 473