Contemporary Action Cinema
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Contemporary Action Cinema

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Action cinema is a popular and familiar form which reflects the cultural, industrial and historical landscape from which it emerges. Lisa Purse analyses the genre's pleasures and complexities in the light of both its cinematic history and the latest critical debates. Focussing on action cinema of the 2000s, this book explores issues of visual style, narrative, representation and the various contexts of production through a diverse series of case studies including Avatar (2009), Casino Royale (2006), The Hurt Locker (2008) and Banlieue 13 (2004).Providing a groundbreaking account of the way that the spectator engages with the action body and the action narrative, and including analyses of areas of representation that have seldom received sustained attention in the past, this comprehensive study is the perfect companion to modern action cinema.Key Features* Provides wide-ranging analyses and interpretation of action cinema* Discusses representations of heroism, gender and ethnicity* Explores the spectator's embodied engagement with the action film* Examines the effect of 9/11 and changes in US foreign policy

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Publisher
EUP
Year
2011
ISBN
9780748646128
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video
36 
contemporary 
action 
cinema
notes
1.
For 
example, 
see 
Schatz 
1993
, 
Wyatt 
1994
, 
Gross 
2000
, 
Dixon 
2001
and 
Sobchack 
2006
.
2.
See 
Geoff 
King, 
who 
argues 
that 
claims 
about 
spectacle 
replacing 
narrative 
are 
‘often 
based 
on 
an 
exaggerated 
assumption 
of 
the 
extent 
to 
which 
Hollywood 
movies 
were 
ever 
dominated
by 
a 
commitment 
to 
classical 
narrative 
norms’ 
(italics 
in 
original) 
(King 
2002
: 
180
). 
See 
also 
Gunning 
2000
and 
Neale 
2000
.
3.
The 
cat’s 
presence 
in 
the 
scene 
is 
interesting. 
Even 
a 
trained 
cat 
could 
not 
perform 
(or 
indeed 
stay 
still) 
in 
the 
midst 
of 
a 
building 
collapse 
achieved 
with 
practical 
effects 
(given 
the 
fright-inducingly 
loud 
explosions 
and 
falling 
objects 
that 
that 
would 
involve), 
so 
the 
cat’s 
apparent 
interaction 
with 
other 
scenic 
elements 
is 
clearly 
constructed 
in 
post-
production. 
Aside 
from 
introducing 
a 
comic 
element 
and 
perhaps 
also 
emphasising 
the 
fragility 
of 
animate 
forms 
when 
faced 
with 
the 
onslaught 
of 
debris 
from 
the 
disintegrating 
house, 
then, 
the 
cat’s 
purpose 
seems 
to 
be 
to 
point 
reflexively 
to 
the 
presence 
and 
skill 
of 
the 
digital 
compositing 
in 
the 
sequence.
4.
Sarah 
Street 
ascribes 
a 
similar 
function 
to 
spectacular 
costuming 
in 
The 
Matrix
, 
in 
that 
the 
‘spectacular 
garments 
convince 
us 
that 
the 
characters 
are 
capable 
of 
undermining 
the 
Matrix’ 
(Street 
2001
: 
99
).

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: ‘Where are we, and how did we get here?’
  5. Chapter 1 Narrative and the action film
  6. Chapter 2 The action body
  7. Chapter 3 The action sequence
  8. Chapter 4 Action women
  9. Chapter 5 Action men
  10. Chapter 6 Race in the action film
  11. Chapter 7 Homosexuality in the action film
  12. Chapter 8 Action cinema after 9/11
  13. Chapter 9 The ‘European connection’
  14. Afterword
  15. Bibliography
  16. Filmography
  17. Television Series
  18. Index