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Gender and action films 2000 and beyond : transformations / edited by Steven Gerrard and Rene Middlemost.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Emerald studies in popular culture and gender.
- Emerald studies in popular culture and gender
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures.
- Action and adventure films.
- Gender identity in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2023]
- Summary:
- Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond
- Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
- Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Abstract
- 1. Ageing
- 1. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: Virtuous Masculinity and Ageing Heroes in Geriaction Cinema
- From Hardbodies to Geriaction Heroism
- Post-9/11 Action Archetypes: The Hardbody Geriaction Sub Variant
- Seriality, Maturity and Virtue
- The Maturation of Tom Cruise's Heroic Masculinity
- All Roads Lead to Ethan Hunt: Cruise's Strategic Action Career Progression
- Solidifying Heroism in the Noughties
- Ageing as a Mature Action Hero
- The Mature and Virtuous Hero in Geriaction Cinema
- Conclusion
- References
- 2. The Art of Making Do: Ageing Recent-to-Action Stars in Hollywood-Style French Action Cinema
- The French Roots of the Geri-Action Cycle
- 'What Have I Got Left to Offer?': Terminating Professional Relationships and Cultural Dinosaur Dads
- Space, Making Do and Ageing Recent-to-Action Performance
- 'So, I Buy Back My Life By Killing for You': Liberation From Violence Through Violence
- ReferencesReferences:
- 3. 'Nothing Is Over. Nothing! You Just Don't Switch It Off!' - From First to Last - An Analysis of Rambo
- 'They Drew First Blood' - Introducing Rambo
- 'You're Not Hunting Him. He's Hunting You'. First Blood: An Analysis
- 'I Will Fight to Keep Their Memory Alive Forever' - Rambo: Last Blood: Analysis
- 'Don't Push It, or I'll Give You a War You Won't Believe!'
- Webography:
- 2. Evolution
- 4. The Charlie's Angels Franchise: An Analysis of Six Female Action/Crime Characters From a Feminist Perspective
- Second-Wave Feminism and Post-Feminism.
- Where Do the Angels Come From?
- Methodology
- Results
- Discussion
- Final Thoughts
- 5. Artificial Feminism: Fan Reaction to the Representation of Captain Marvel
- The Labels
- Artificial Feminism
- Comparison to Wonder Woman
- 6. 'I've Waited for Him': Laurie Strode's Evolution From Final Girl to Neoliberal Militant in Halloween (2018)
- Traditional Interpretation: Laurie Strode as Final Girl
- Intertextuality of Halloween (2018) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
- Novel Interpretation: Laurie Strode as Warrior Woman, or: The Sarah Connorisation of Laurie Strode
- Reimagining the Final Girl Within #MeToo Culture
- 7. Is the Future Feminist? A Reading of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Logan (2017)
- The Action Genre and Gender
- Mad Max: Fury Road and Utopian Feminist Spaces
- Logan: End of Masculinity
- 3. Gender, Genre, and Narrative Transformation
- 8. Metamodern Vigilante Narratives: Masculinity and Trauma in Blue Ruin (2013) and You Were Never Really Here (2017)
- America and Vigilantism
- The First Wave of Vigilante Films: The 1970s
- The Second Wave of Vigilante Films: The 2000s
- The Third Wave of Vigilante Films: The 2010s
- Blue Ruin (2013)
- You Were Never Really Here (2017)
- 9. Sartorial Femininity and the Upset of Female Masculinity in Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey (2020)
- Setting the Scene: Hard and Soft Action Women
- Female Superheroes on Screen
- Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
- 10. The Queer Female Action Spy Hero in Post-millennial American Cinema
- Sexuality and the Female Spy in Action
- D.E.B.S.
- Atomic Blonde
- The Spy Who Dumped Me
- Conclusion.
- References
- Selected References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gerrard, Steven Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond
- ISBN:
- 1-80117-518-7
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