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Action Cinema Since 2000 / edited by Chris Holmlund, Lisa Purse and Yvonne Tasker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Action and adventure films--History and criticism.
- Action and adventure films.
- Motion pictures--History--21st century.
- Motion pictures.
- Action and adventure films--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Film Institute, 2024.
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from publisher's index page (viewed on May 23, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781839022814
- 1839022817
- 9781839022791
- 1839022795
- 9781839022807
- 1839022809
- Publisher Number:
- 40032363604
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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