Action Cinema Since 2000 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Holmlund, Chris; Tasker, Yvonne; Purse, Lisa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century.

Contributors examine a broad range of content, from blockbusters to smaller independent films, originating from China, Korea, India, France, the USA, and Mexico. Ranging from JSA: Joint Security Area (Gondonggeonygbi guyeok) (2000) to Polite Society (2023), they consider the changing modes of action cinema, with streaming assuming global importance and an ever-increasing number of generic blends. They consider under-explored areas of action film, particularly how race, ethnicity, gender, and age figure in narratives and through image and soundtracks.

Overall, the book demonstrates how 21st century action cinema engages with and reflects geopolitical, creative, and industrial developments. Contributors argue that it continues to offer fantasies of empowerment and mobility that say much about how power is understood in diverse contexts today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839022807
• Artikelnr.: 72245699

Autorenporträt

Chris Holmlund is Professor Emerita of Cinema Studies, Women's Studies and French at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. She has longstanding research interests in action film, stardom, and performance. Her books include Female Trouble (2017) and American Cinema of the 1990s (2208). She is editor of The Ultimate Stallone Reader (2014). Lisa Purse is Professor of Film at the University of Reading, UK. She is a leading action and digital effects scholar with interests in the politics of representation and the aesthetics of contemporary digital cinema technologies. Her books include Contemporary Action Cinema (2011), and Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (2013). She is co-editor of Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World (2017). Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She has written extensively on popular cinema and is author of Spectacular Bodies (1993), Working Girls (1998), and The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015). She is editor of Action and Adventure Cinema (2004), and co-editor of Interrogating Postfeminism (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Action as Mode
Chris Holmlund, Lisa Purse, and Yvonne Tasker 1. Accounting for Action: Racial Discourse and Chronologies of Genre
Yvonne Tasker 2. Dirt Research: Contemporary Stunt Work in Action
Lauren Steimer 3. Big and Loud: The Sonic Aesthetics of the Fight Scene in Digital Action Cinema
Lindsay Steenberg and Lisa Coulthard 4. "French Touch" Action Cinema
Charlie Michael 5. No Exit from "Hell Joseon": National Tragedy and Heroic Rescue in South Korean Action
Disaster Films
Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient 6. Mesmerizing Outsiders: Washington, Mackie, and Performance in Action Cinema
Cynthia Baron 7. Samuel L. Jackson in Geriaction: "Bad Ass" Black Screen Masculinity, Aging, and Redundancy
Glen Donnar 8. Action Latinas in an Era of Precarity
Mary Beltrán 9. Bollywood's New Action Cinema: The Woman
led Action Film and the Nation
Krupa Shandilya 10. Anxiety in Action: Jackie Chan, COVID
19, and Brexit along the Belt and Road
Gina Marchetti 11. Aging, Disability, Acting: Pam Grier and Sigourney Weaver
Chris Holmlund 12. What Does Power Look Like? Women Heroes in Digital Action Cinema
Lisa Purse 13. Beyond the Dark Moment: Seriality and Heroic Failure in Contemporary Action Cinema
Scott Higgins Filmography Index