Action and Adventure Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780415235075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 414 str.

Yvonne Tasker

Opis

This reader of key writing on action cinema from the silent period to the 21st centuryy is divided into thematic sections addressing major areas such as defining the genre, film history and style, action and spectacle, genres and meaning, stars and bodies, action auteurs and the film industry. The reader covers both Hollywood actions movies such as Terminator 1 and 2 and Die Hard and also European and Asian action cinema. It also includes a full bibliography and guide to other resources both in print and online.

Spis treści

Part 1: History and Style  1. Inventing Early Cinema  2. The 'Culture War' of Sensational Melodrama, 1910-1914  3. 'Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art': Early Film Melodrama  4. Action-Adventure as Hollywood Genre Part 2: Theorising Action Aesthetics  5. 'Get Ready for Rush Hour': The Chronotope in Action  6. Dwight MacDonald and the Historical Epic  7. The Collapse of Reality and Illusion in The Matrix  8. Guns and Gas: Investigating the Post-Classical Car Chase Film  9. Saving Private Ryan's 'Special Affect' Part 3: Gender, Stars, Bodies  10. Ready for Action: G.I. Jane. Demi Moore's Body and the Female Combat Movie  11. Más Macha: The New Latina Action Hero  12. Beauty in Motion: Gender, Spectacle and Action Babe Cinema  13. Breakdown: White Masculinity, Class and US Action-Adventure Films  14. Maximus Melodramaticus: Masculinity, Masochism and White Male Paranoia in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema  15. The Family in Action  Part 4: Nation, Ethnicity and Stardom  16. The Hong Kong/Hollywood Connection: Stardom and Spectacle in Transnational Action Cinema  17. Europeans in Action  18. Greek War Film as Melodrama: Women, Female Stars and the Nation as Victim  19. Spaghetti Western, Genre Criticism and National Cinema: Re-Defining the Frame of Reference Part 5: Action, Authorship and Industry  20. Genre and Violence in the Work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah  21. The Dirty Dozen: The Contradictory Nature of Screen Violence  22. 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, Star Wars and Childrens Entertainment  23. Man's Favourite Sport? The Action Films of Kathryn Bigelow  24. 'They call me action woman': The Marketing of Mimi Leder as a New Concept in the High Concept 'Action' Film

O autorze

Yvonne Tasker