Action Cinema Since 2000 / edited by Chris Holmlund, Lisa Purse and Yvonne Tasker.

Other author Holmlund, Chris, editor.
Other author Purse, Lisa, editor.
Other author Tasker, Yvonne, 1964- editor.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
PublicationLondon : British Film Institute, 2024.
DistributionLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Description1 online resource (296 pages)
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects
Action and adventure films--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History. --21st century.
Action and adventure films--21st century.

Contents Introduction: 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 -- Index.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from publisher's index page (viewed on May 23, 2024).
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ISBN9781839022791 (epub)
ISBN1839022795 (epub)
ISBN9781839022807 (PDF)
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