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A companion to the action film / edited by James Kendrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Action and adventure films--History and criticism.
- Action and adventure films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 494 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
- Contents:
- Origins of the action film: types, tropes, and techniques in early film history / Kyle Barrowman
- A genre of its own: from westerns, to vigilantes, to pure action / James Kendrick
- The new dominance: action-fantasy hybrids and the new superhero in 2000s
- Action cinema / Lisa Purse
- Around the world in action / Mark Gallagher
- The perpetual motion aesthetic of action cinema / Nick Jones
- Asian action cinema and its influence on Hollywood / Barna William Donovan
- Comedy in action / Cynthia M. King
- The composite body: action stars and embodiment in the digital age / Drew Ayers
- Translating the panel: remediating a comics aesthetic in contemporary action
- Cinema / Joshua Wucher
- Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah, and the action concept of Eastern Westerns / Stephen Teo
- The martial arts supremacy: action film and fight choreography / Paul Bowman
- All guts and no glory: stuntwork and stunt performers in Hollywood history / Lauren Steimer
- Hollywood's hard bodies: the stars who made the action films famous / Susan Jeffords
- The strange case of Carlos Ray Norris: reactionary masculinity and its imaginary discontents / Tony Williams
- New action realism: claustrophobia, immediacy, and mediation in the films of Kathryn Bigelow, Paul Greengrass, and Michael Mann / Vincent M. Gaine
- Postmodernism in action movies / Micheal McAlexander
- The 1980s action film and the politics of urban expulsions / Jon Kraszewski
- Infinite crisis: intertextuality and watchmen / Matt Yockey
- Blowing up the war film: powerlessness and the crisis of the action-image in the Hurt locker and Inglourious basterds / Paul Gormley
- X-men/action men: performing masculinities in superhero and science-fiction
- Cinema / Yvonne Tasker
- Unlikely action heroine: Melissa McCarthy challenges bodily ideals in modern action film / Jeffrey A. Brown
- "I am become death": managing massacres and constructing the female teen
- Leader in the 100 / Rikke Schubart
- A digital nature: Lucy takes technology for a ride / Lorrie Palmer
- "I feel the need, the need for speed": prosthetics, agency panic, and the high-tech action film / Steffen Hantke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Companion to the action film.
- ISBN:
- 9781119100744
- 1119100747
- 9781119100485
- 1119100488
- 9781119100768
- 1119100763
- Publisher Number:
- 99995914656
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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