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Action Cinema Since 2000
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Action Cinema Since 2000
About this book
Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century.
Contributors examine a broad range of content, from blockbusters to smaller independent films, originating from China, Korea, India, France, the USA, and Mexico. Ranging from JSA: Joint Security Area (Gondonggeonygbi guyeok) (2000) to Polite Society (2023), they consider the changing modes of action cinema, with streaming assuming global importance and an ever-increasing number of generic blends. They consider under-explored areas of action film, particularly how race, ethnicity, gender, and age figure in narratives and through image and soundtracks.
Overall, the book demonstrates how 21st century action cinema engages with and reflects geopolitical, creative, and industrial developments. Contributors argue that it continues to offer fantasies of empowerment and mobility that say much about how power is understood in diverse contexts today.
Contributors examine a broad range of content, from blockbusters to smaller independent films, originating from China, Korea, India, France, the USA, and Mexico. Ranging from JSA: Joint Security Area (Gondonggeonygbi guyeok) (2000) to Polite Society (2023), they consider the changing modes of action cinema, with streaming assuming global importance and an ever-increasing number of generic blends. They consider under-explored areas of action film, particularly how race, ethnicity, gender, and age figure in narratives and through image and soundtracks.
Overall, the book demonstrates how 21st century action cinema engages with and reflects geopolitical, creative, and industrial developments. Contributors argue that it continues to offer fantasies of empowerment and mobility that say much about how power is understood in diverse contexts today.
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Yes, you can access Action Cinema Since 2000 by Chris Holmlund, Lisa Purse, Yvonne Tasker, Chris Holmlund,Lisa Purse,Yvonne Tasker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Action as Mode
- 1 Accounting for Action: Racial Discourse and Chronologies of Genre
- 2 Dirt Research: Contemporary Stunt Work in Action
- 3 Big and Loud: The Sonic Aesthetics of the Fight Scene in Digital Action Cinema
- 4 âFrench Touchâ Action Cinema
- 5 No Exit from âHell Joseonâ: National Tragedy and Heroic Rescue in South Korean Action-Disaster Films
- 6 Mesmerizing Outsiders: Washington, Mackie, and Performance in Action Cinema
- 7 Samuel L. Jackson in Geriaction: âBad Assâ Black Screen Masculinity, Aging, and Redundancy
- 8 Action Latinas in an Era of Precarity
- 9 Bollywoodâs New Action Cinema: The Woman-led Action Film and the Nation
- 10 Anxiety in Action: Jackie Chan, COVID-19, and Brexit along the Belt and Road
- 11 Aging, Disability, Acting: Pam Grier and Sigourney Weaver
- 12 What Does Power Look Like? Women Heroes in Digital Action Cinema
- 13 Beyond the Dark Moment: Seriality and Heroic Failure in Contemporary Action Cinema
- Filmography
- Index
- Copyright