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OverviewAction 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, USA) , Professor Lisa Purse (University of Reading, UK) , Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: BFI Publishing ISBN: 9781839022777ISBN 10: 1839022779 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 13 June 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 IndexReviewsThis book emphatically confirms the continuing significance of action cinema, particularly as a site of cross-cultural exchange. In its capacious breadth and its intellectual generosity, it captures and astonishing range of issues, offering transnational perspectives on this evolving genre. -- Sharon Willis, University of Rochester, USA Action Cinema Since 2000 offers a series of solid intellectual punches that together make a convincing case for considering action cinema as a dominant mode of popular film. Comprehensive and compelling, it examines the aesthetics of action in a global context and is certain to be an indispensable volume for anyone interested in contemporary filmmaking. -- Barry Keith Grant, Brock University, Canada Author InformationChris Holmlund is Professor Emerita of Cinema Studies, Women’s Studies and French at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. She has longstanding research interests in action film, stardom, and performance. Her books include Female Trouble (2017) and American Cinema of the 1990s (2208). She is editor of The Ultimate Stallone Reader (2014). Lisa Purse is Professor of Film at the University of Reading, UK. She is a leading action and digital effects scholar with interests in the politics of representation and the aesthetics of contemporary digital cinema technologies. Her books include Contemporary Action Cinema (2011), and Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (2013). She is co-editor of Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World (2017). Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She has written extensively on popular cinema and is author of Spectacular Bodies (1993), Working Girls (1998), and The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015). She is editor of Action and Adventure Cinema (2004), and co-editor of Interrogating Postfeminism (2007). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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