Studying Hot fuzz / Neil Archer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archer, Neil, 1971- author.

Series:

Studying films.

Liverpool scholarship online.

Studying films

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police films--History and criticism.

Police films.

Comedy films--History and criticism.

Comedy films.

Hot fuzz (Motion picture).

Wright, Edgar, 1974---Criticism and interpretation.

Wright, Edgar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

By the power of Greyskull! In their second big-screen collaboration after 'Shaun of the Dead' (2004), with 'Hot Fuzz' (2007) director and co-writer Edgar Wright and co-writer and star Simon Pegg took aim at the conventions of the Hollywood action movie, transplanting gratuitous slo-mo action sequences into the English village supermarket and local pub. This book, provides a critical study of arguably the most influential British film-makers to emerge this century, considers to what extent a modestly funded film such as this can be considered 'British' at all, given its international success and distribution by an American studio, and how far that success depends upon what the book calls its 'cultural specificity'. It considers the film as a parody of the action-movie genre, and discusses exactly how parody works.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Beyond a Joke?; 1. Sandford, Hollywood: Hot Fuzz and the Business of British Cinema; 2. The Shit Just Got Real: Hot Fuzz and the Uses of Parody; 3. I Kinda Like It Here: Hot Fuzz as National Cinema; 4. Fanboys in Toyland: Hot Fuzz and movie stardom; 5. From Hollywood to the End of the World; Conclusion: Seriously Good Fun; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Leighton Buzzard: Auteur, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 13, 2021).

ISBN:

1-80085-002-6

1-80034-195-4

1-80034-733-2

0-9932384-1-6