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" A companion to the action film / "
edited by James Kendrick.
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839992
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A companion to the action film /\ edited by James Kendrick.
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Hoboken, NJ :: Wiley Blackwell,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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1 online resource (xiv, 494 pages)
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1119100488
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: 1119100747
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: 1119100763
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: 9781119100485
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: 9781119100744
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: 9781119100768
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1119100496
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9781119100492
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"As a genre of film the roots of which go all the way back to the birth of the medium and the reach of which extends all the way to the present day, the action film is a fascinating object of inquiry for scholars from a wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. In an effort to contribute to the increase in scholarship on the action film across the humanities, I will endeavor to explore in this chapter some of the most important and influential character types (the cop, the gangster, the cowboy, the swashbuckler), narrative tropes (foot and car chases, last-minute rescues, fight scenes), and visual techniques (camera movement to dynamize space, parallel editing to intensify time) as they emerged and evolved over the course of the first half-century of film propaedeutic to a comprehensive understanding of the action film"--
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Action and adventure films-- History and criticism.
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Action and adventure films.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Reference.
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791.43/6582
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PN1995.9.A3C66 2019
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Kendrick, James,1974-
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