| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"Action cinema is a popular and familiar form which reflects the cultural, industrial and historical landscape from which it emerges. Lisa Purse analyses the genre's pleasures and complexities in the light of both its cinematic history and the latest critical debates. Focussing on action cinema of the 2000s, this book explores issues of visual style, narrative, representation and the various contexts of production through a diverse series of case studies including Avatar (2009), Casino Royale (2006), The Hurt Locker (2008) and Banlieue 13 (2004). Providing a groundbreaking account of the way that the spectator engages with the action body and the action narrative, and including analyses of areas of representation that have seldom received sustained attention in the past, this comprehensive study is the perfect companion to modern action cinema. Key Features: Provides wide-ranging analyses and interpretation of action cinema, Discusses representations of heroism, gender and ethnicity, Explores the spectator's embodied engagement with the action film, Examines the effect of 9/11 and changes in US foreign policy"--Publisher description. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index. |
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Includes filmography (pages 203-211). |
| Contents |
Narrative and the action film -- The action body -- The action sequence -- Action women -- Action men -- Race in the action film -- Homosexuality in the action film -- Action cinema after 9/11 -- The 'European connection'. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Action and adventure films -- History and criticism.
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Action and adventure films. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Purse, Lisa. Contemporary action cinema. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2011 9780748638178 (OCoLC)693812373 |
| ISBN |
9780748646128 (electronic book) |
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0748646124 (electronic book) |
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9780748646012 (electronic book) |
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0748646019 (electronic book) |
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9780748638178 (hardback) |
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0748638172 (hardback) |
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9780748638185 (paperback) |
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0748638180 (paperback) |
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